eduGAIN Steering Group Meeting

Tuesday 17th September 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 CEST (in your timezone)

Please Note that the above time is CONFIRMED.

12:45 UTC
14:45 CEST

Arrival & "Can you hear me now?" (see  Connection Details)

13:00 UTC
15:00 CEST

Welcome, Introductions & Agenda Agreement

13:10 UTC
15:10 CET

Membership Updates and Joining
  • 64 participant members / 5 members / 8 candidates
  • New Members (2)
    • Saudi Arabia / Maeen (participating)
    • Malta/RiċerkaNet Identity Federation (member)
  • Candidates Under Assessment (1)
    • Kyrgyz Republic / KRENA Identity Federation (KIF)
  • New Candidates (1)
    • CSTNet Cloud - Updated MRPS
  • https://technical.edugain.org/status.php

eduGAIN Observers

The following individuals would like to request / continue their observer status on the eduGAIN-SG list:

  • Klaas Wierenga, GÉANT.
  • Maarten Kremers, Surfnet, GN4-3 Task Leader in Trust and Identity Work Package.
  • Christos Kanellopoulos, GÉANT.  eduTEAMS Service Owner.
  • Mikael Linden, CSC.
  • Thomas Baerecke, SWITCH. eduGAIN Support.
  • Brook Schofield, GÉANT & Casper Dreef, GÉANT. eduGAIN Secretariat.
13:20 UTC
15:20 CEST

eduGAIN Town Hall

    • Possible Locations
    • Possible Dates
13:30 UTC
15:30 CEST

eduGAIN "baselining"

13:40 UTC
15:40 CEST

resolving eduGAIN issues

eduGAIN is great when it works, but many things can go wrong

  • federation and organisation policies
  • Awareness
  • Working across many organisational and national boundaries
  • Working across time zones
13:50 UTC
15:50 CEST

Future SG Meetings

13:55 UTC
15:55 CEST

Any other business, Summary and Actions

  • Zoom connections URLs and use of Zoom for future meetings?

14:00 UTC
16:00 CEST

Meeting Close

Connection Details

Attendance

Federations in Attendance (xx)

  1. Australian Access Federation (AAF)
  2. ...

Attendees (xx)

  1. Casper Dreef, GÉANT
  2. Davide Vaghetti, IDEM/GARR
  3. Terry Smith, AAF
  4. ...

Apologies (xx)

  1. Brook Schofield, GÉANT
  2. Nicole Harris, GÉANT
  3. Muhammad Farhan Sjaugi, SIFULAN

Notes

Welcome, Introductions & Agenda Agreement

The Chair welcomed everyone to the 3rd meeting of 2019.

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


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.

Two candidates currently under assessment.

eduGAIN Town Hall

Possible Locations and dates?

eduGAIN "baselining"

The eduGAIN Compliance Issues wiki page has been updated but required more attention and this is an ongoing process.

Validator report at https://technical.edugain.org/profile_v2 now shows:

resolving eduGAIN issues

R&S, SIRTIFI, baselining, validators and the many other tools are all helping to resolve and even prevent issues occuring 

for a researcher in one nation seamlessly accessing a service on the other side of the planet. When it all works great!

But when it doesn't determining the fault can be complex. Issues include;

Simple guidance for commuting issues and identifying parties that need to be involved?

Improving awareness for organisations and federations?

Sharing and tracking the issues and the solutions?

Future meetings

The next SG meeting was confirmed to take place on Tuesday 10th December 2019 13:00 UTC Drop in sessions:

AoB and Close

No other business was raised. The meeting closed on time.