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titleGN4-3 project team


NameOrganisationRole
Lukas Hämmerle


SWITCHP.I.PI
 Jule ZieglerDFN-LRZScrum master

Leif Johansson

SUNETMentor
Slavek LicehammerCESNETCESNET GEANT contact
Pavel PoláčekCESNETTeam
Jan ChvojkaCESNETTeam


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Activity Overview

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titleDescription
This T&I work package continues the work on IdP discovery as it was started in GN4-2 in the eduTEAMS and IdP Discovery subtask. It gathers requirements, and works with the RA21 initiative towards an implementation that can become a service in the GEANT project. At the same time it helps handing over the existing eduTEAM Discovery Service to the new (GN4-3 WP5 T1) eduGAIN service.


There are two primary goals:
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titleGoals
  • Gather feedback from current pilot users on the existing discovery pilot service

  • Handover/transition the eduTEAM Discovery Service to the WP5 T1 eduGAIN service. Achieving this goal is considered done and successful when the discovery service is either officially accepted (according to the GEANT PLM) as component of the eduGAIN service or if it is considered as independent GÉANT service. The first option is probably more suitable and therefore preferred. WP5 T1 task leader Davide Varghetti suggested Nebosja as contact person of the subtask to operate the DS within the eduGAIN service. The handover should be finished by the end of the first incubator cycle (summer 2019).

  • Continue work on RA21. In particular:
    • Review and provide inputs on the RA21 work from GÉANT's point of view.
    • Figure out if and how to best operate a Discovery Service for eduGAIN community (see delivery models below in technical details)

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titleBackgrouond information

See eduTEAMS DSX Discovery documentation pages: DSX Discovery Service (Pilot)


Activity Details

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titleTechnical details

The current eduTEAMS DSX Discovery Service (will be renamed to eduGAIN was initially called eduTEAMS Discovery Service most likely) is operated on httphttps://discoverydsx.eduteamsedugain.org (several physically distributed servers) and a test instance on httphttps://dsdsx-test.eduteamsedugain.org/. Its software is the CESNET SAML2 Discovery Service implementation (PHP). Even though the service is not considered yet a production service according to the GEANT PLM (because it is neither part of the eduTEAMS or nor eduGAIN service currently), the service has been operated as managed service on the same production hardware by CESNET that CESNET uses for their own production Discovery Service. The three main features that distinguish this implementation from others are:

  • Privacy awareness: The operator of the DS does not know which organisation the user is from after the user made his choice
  • Embeddable: The DS can be embedded with a JavaScript on any web page
  • Filtering: The IdPs listed in the DS can be filtered according to federation, entity categories or individually by adding a proprietary filtering expression to the URL to load the DS from. The filter can be created in a specific filter user interface.

The Discovery Service documentation (for SP administrators) is on the GEANT wiki.

The RA21 prototype Discovery Service (special branch based on pyFF, python) has been developed by Leif Johansson (SUNET) with and for the RA21 project. A prototype of the user interface is available on the pyFF nightly instance. It demonstrates an example user interface that was invested quite some work in together with RA21 UI experts and that was mostly created with the RA21 target services (login on publisher web sites) in mind.

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titleData protection & Privacy

The eduTEAMS DSX Discovery service (to be renamed and moved) already has a Privacy Policy. Its implementation (by CESNET) is already very privacy aware compared to other discovery service implementations.

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Activity Results

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titleResults

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