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The technologies in Moonshot have been actively developed within the IETF.
Moonshot End of Life Statement
Following a recent service evaluation and a GÉANT member survey, GÉANT decided not to develop the Moonshot technology forward into a full, inter-federated production service offering as originally planned. The most recent Moonshot pilots to evaluate the technology in previous projects were successful, proving the software works as intended and enables federated access to non-web applications. However, despite this major benefit a subsequent post-pilot survey revealed low levels of intent for near-term uptake of Moonshot by federations.
A refocusing of Moonshot technology use in GÉANT was planned as follows:
- Repurpose old pilot infrastructure to function as a demo system for communities and integrate with Jisc Assent upstream.
- Work with Umbrella (Synchrotron community) and other interested parties to determine what would be needed for a community-specific service, and enhance the demo setup accordingly.
- Consider integrating Moonshot as a supported eduTEAMS service environment for advanced eduTEAMS on a per-community basis.