eduGAIN SG - 2020 June

eduGAIN Steering Group Meeting

Tuesday 16th June, 16:30 UTC (in your timezone)

Please Note that the above time is CONFIRMED.

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Attendance

Federations in Attendance (xx)

1. IDEM
2. AAF
3. SWAMID
4. UK Federation
5. SAFIRE
6. LEAF
7. eduID.hu
8. DFN-AAI
9. FÉR
10. Gakunin
11. GRNET
12. PIONEER.id
13. InCommon
14. CAF
15. COFRe
16. CAFe
17. safeID
18. AAI@EduHr
19. ReEduNetID
20. MINGA
21. eduIDM.ma

Attendees (37)

1. Casper Dreef, GÉANT
2. Davide Vaghetti, IDEM/GARR
3. Terry Smith, AAF
4. Nicole Harris, GÉANT
5. Pål Axelsson, SWAMID
6. Donald Coetzee, SAFIRE
7. Alex Stuart, UK Federation
8. Valentin Pocotilenco, LEAF
9. Attila Laszlo, eduID.hu/KIFU
10. Wolfgang Pempe, DFN-AAI
11. Anass Chabli, FER
12. Guy Halse, SAFIRE
13. Eisaku Sakane, Gakunin
14. Halil Adem, GRNET
15. Rhys Smith, UK Federation
16. Thomasz Wolniewicz, PIONEER
17. Martin Stanislav, safeID
18. Nick Roy, InCommon
19. Chris Phillips, CAF
20. János Mohácsi, eduID.hu/KIFU
21. Licia Florio, GÉANT
22. Alejandro Lara (COFRe / REUNA)
23. Jean Carlo Faustino, CAFe
24. Maja Gorecka-Wolniewicz, PIONEER
25. Martin Stanislav, safeID
26. Miroslav Milinovic, SRCE / AAI@EduHr
27. Sami X
28. Thomas Bärecke, eduGAIN Support
29. Valeriu Vraciu, (RoEduNet)
30. Claudio Chacón (CEDIA)
31. Thilina Pathirana
32. Boro Jakimovski
33. Rafal Lawrukiewicz, CAF
34. Hassan Bouhaddou, eduIDM.ma
35. Daniel Muscat, RicerkaNet
36. Emilio Nakamura (RNP)

Apologies (xx)

1. Saeed Khademi IRFED
2. Jiri Borik eduID.cz
3. José Manuel Macías, SIR

Notes

Welcome, Introductions & Agenda Agreement

The Chair welcomed everyone to the 4rd meeting of 2019 ...

See the Open Actions & Previous Meeting notes. The major open action will be covered within the meeting.

No open actions. Minutes were approved.

Membership Updates and Joining

For details on new members and candidates see https://technical.edugain.org/status and work on progressing new members is underway.

Four (4) federations participated in eduGAIN since the last meeting.

Four (4) candidates currently under assessment.

• China / CSTCloud Federation - 18-Oct-2019
• Slovakia / safeID - 24-Oct-2019
• Mexico / FENIX - 21-Nov-2019
• Tajikistan / TARENA Identity Federation - 28-Nov-2019

Technical suspension: MATE, CAFMoz.

Maintaining trust relationships in a growing eduGAIN environment

Please find slides and Mentimeter results here:

Baseline expectations preliminary results

Baseline meetings took place over the last couple of months. You can find the notes here: https://wiki.refeds.org/display/GROUPS/Baseline+Expectations+Working+Group

Four categories: SPs, IdPs, Federation Operators and Interfederation Operators.

Current results: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u0XuvPRFKH5RaDEcgdp3jyfgNZbWAR4Q1yl0GzNkCro/

You can also subscribe to the mailing list:https://lists.refeds.org/sympa/info/federation-baseline and the eduGAIN Slack channel: #baseline.

Support / Security/ Operations team update

Support: new manuals and updated "How to join eduGAIN as a Service Provider". Comments are very welcome.  More work on proactive tickets.  Haven't seen a significant month on month change despite changes in working environments. 

Operational: improvements on the technical site, eduGAIN database and the metadata validator - issues with validation currently on the radar for the OT were shared earlier in the meeting. 

Security: drafted eduGAIN Security Incident Response Handbook. In collaboration with SIRTFI.  Handbook will be shared with eduGAIN SG and REFEDS alongside a proposal to create an eduGAIN CSIRT.

Members discussed how this works with other security initiatives and whether there could be synergies with GÉANT CERT.  The plans are still at a very early stage so there are many opportunities to work out how to make these relationships work.  We need to be mindful of potential information sharing with countries that are embargoed by other countries within eduGAIN.

F-Ticks for eduGAIN pilot

Miro gave a demo of f-ticks for eduGAIN: https://f-ticks.edugain.org/.  Members are invited to share statistics with the team by contacting support@edugain.org.  Details are on the website. 5 federations are currently participating. 

Future meetings

The dates for the next SG meetings and Drop-in sessions are available here: eduGAIN Steering Group

• the T&I Town Hall has been postponed to 27/28 October 2020. The organisors will keep a close eye on travel restrictions.
• Next SG meeting 15th September 7:00 UTC https://timeanddate.com/s/419d
• Next Drop-in session 21st July 12:00 UTC https://timeanddate.com/s/419b 

Members were supportive of moving the town hall online if it is not possible to travel.

AoB and Close

The Secretariat is testing the voting tool Zeus to be used for future membership voting. A test vote will be carried out in due course.

CAF is looking into proxy with different tools.