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1.1 Membership
The eduGAIN Futures Group membership is open to:
- Any staff member of an eduGAIN Identity Federation.
- Members of the eduGAIN Service staff, including eduGAIN Security Team, Operational Team, Support Team and Secretariat.
- Recognised stakeholders from the wider eduGAIN community that are accepted by the group.
Members must be able to commit to attending eduGAIN Futures Working Group meetings on a regular basis, providing input to the eduGAIN Futures Working Group deliverables and support the implementation of the proposals developed in national federations and eduGAIN.
1.2 Goals
- To review the REFEDS Baseline Expectations document and make proposals for changes to eduGAIN to support the baseline.
- To identify key issues with current eduGAIN service provision and make recommendations for improvements (e.g. support mechanisms for CoCo and R&S, lack of service offer to Service Providers, technology support for OIDC etc).
- To review the governance model for eduGAIN and make recommendations for improvements.
- To cross-reference proposals with other working groups and the eduGAIN service teams.
Out of scope:
- Direct policy revision - this work will be carried out based on the recommendations of this group.
1.3 Timeframe
It is expected the eduGAIN Futures Working Group will start work in November 2021 and complete it’s proposals by April 2022. Depending on the recommendations of the group, the timeline may be extended to help support implementation of changes within eduGAIN.
1.4 Support
The Working Group will be supported by the eduGAIN Secretariat. Tools available:
- GÉANT wiki for minutes and documentation for the group.
- eduGAIN Slack channel: edugain.slack.com.
- Working Group mailing list:edugain-futures@lists.geant.org
1.5 Deliverables
The outcome of this group will be a document with a set of recommendations for the relevant eduGAIN teams / community.
Work Items
Goal 1:
To review the REFEDS Baseline Expectations document and make proposals for changes to eduGAIN to support the baseline.
Baseline Requirement | Potential eduGAIN Improvements | Stakeholders | Required Activities |
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[FO1] You focus on trustworthiness of Federation as a primary objective and are transparent about such efforts |
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[FO2] You publish contact information and respond in a timely fashion to operational issues |
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[FO3] You apply security practices to federation operations and ensure timely incident response |
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[FO4] You follow good practices to ensure authentic, accurate and interoperable metadata to enable secure and trustworthy federated transactions |
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[FO5] You implement and support frameworks that improve trustworthy and scalable use of Federation and promote their adoption by members and other participants |
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[FO6] You collaborate with other organisations to promote realization of baseline expectations nationally and internationally |
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Goal 2:
To identify key issues with current eduGAIN service provision and make recommendations for improvements (e.g. support mechanisms for CoCo and R&S, lack of service offer to Service Providers, technology support for OIDC etc).
Core areas mentioned:
- MFA
- Assurance
- R&S / Personalised Entity Category
- CoCo
- Sirtfi
- Changes to federation models - e.g. eduID.
- Missing services - e.g. service catalogue.
Proposed model suggestions from previous discussions:
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Goal 3:
To review the governance model for eduGAIN and make recommendations for improvements.
Core areas raised:
- Current eduGAIN SG is more of an assembly and is not an effective decision making body.
- Current eduGAIN SG is limited to federation operators.
- Need for a smaller, elected focused SG?
- Need for technical support committee? Reference / advisory groups for other stakeholders?
- Need a better way to review and accept new federations.
- What does the new model need to achieve? Decision? Oversight? Review?
Goal 4:
To cross-reference proposals with other working groups and the eduGAIN service teams.
References
Slides from eduGAIN session: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UvYpMvjFzKYG1eYjSjIqSKmB6pyTZOeI/edit#slide=id.p1.