22 April

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Agenda

Attendees: Casper, Pål, Jonathan, Davide, Dalia, Ann, Nicole

Apologies: Bas, Farhan

Notes:

Welcome, Agenda Agreement and Open Actions

Welcome by Casper and Davide. 

No open actions.

eduGAIN Steering Committee Terms of Reference

https://wiki.geant.org/download/attachments/633275634/eduGAIN-Steering-Committee-ToRv1%20FINAL.pdf.

The eduGAIN Steering Committee is responsible for:

• Proposing changes to the eduGAIN Declaration and Constitution for vote by the eduGAIN Assembly.
• Discussing and approving changes to the eduGAIN Technology Profiles and supporting technical documentation after consultation with appropriate parties.
• Approving updates and changes to the eduGAIN Strategy and Workplan.
• Making decisions on metadata peering relationships, e.g. exchanging metadata with other trust infrastructures.
• Reviewing membership of new Federations and making recommendations to the eduGAIN Assembly.
• Approving the disqualification or temporary suspension for Member Federations as described in section 3.5 of the eduGAIN Constitution.
• Appointing the Chair and non-voting invited observers to the eSC.
• Approving, supporting and chairing eduGAIN Working Groups.

There are currently technical developments that the Steering Committee members will be consulted on. This will probably happen offline using the mailing list.

Appointing SC Chair & Agreeing Observers

Chair election: Pål Axelsson was elected as Chair of the Steering Committee and eduGAIN Assembly.

Proposal: accept Irina Sidorova (GN5-2 WP5 T&I lead) and reconfirm Marina Adomeit (GN5-2 WP5 T&I lead). 
The proposal was accepted.

It was proposed to occasionally invite subject matter experts, e.g. REFEDS WG representatives, to update the Steering Committee to improve uptake of (REFEDS) standards.

Service Team Overview

Redesigning core services to improve reliability. Two sites are in place (IDEM/GARR - Italy and Pionier.pl/PCSS - Poland), with work ongoing on the third site at SWAMID/SUNET - Sweden.

Also working with SWAMID to update the Attribute Release Check code. The updates should be ready by the end of May 2025. This also includes MFA and RAF. https://release-check-test.edugain.org/. It is open source and will be easy for Identity Federations to run their own version (including branding). 
Planned: shut down eduGAIN Reporting and integrate its functionalities into technical.edugain.org. 

Work Plan - Rebuilding eduGAIN trust

Support materials:
- Futures WG white paper: 2022 eduGAIN Futures Working Group Report Consultation
- eduGAIN Strategy 
- Roadmap

The federation security contacts requirement was completed in Q4 2025. 

OpenID Federation activities:
Pilot - currently 12 production federations are participating in the pilot. Still more federations are expressing interest to join the pilot. Working closely with the Shibboleth Consortium. Testing requirements to be able to determine what works and explore limitations. The challenge will be convincing users to adopt OpenID Federation. What will be the drivers? How can we convince federation operators and entities? Framing is crucial.
The original deadline for the pilot is planned this Summer. It has not been decided to whether extend the pilot or to close this stage and start a second phase in Q3. Initial plan was development of tooling. Moved from v0.5 to v0.20. 
It was agreed to continue the discussion offline.

Technical Profile WG - revisiting SAML profile and creating a OIDFed profile.

Membership applications

NgREN IF (Nigeria) - accepted by the Assembly vote. The federation is now in the process of signing the declaration

BotsREN (Botswana) - First round of assessment is done. The federation is working on implementation of the feedback in their policies.
eduID.ml (Mali) - ready for assessment by the Steering Committee.
CAFMoz (Mozambique) - unfortunately we haven't heard back from this federation since last eG SC meeting.

MREN (Montenegro) - started to set up their federation with the help of iAMRES (Serbia). the secretariat had a first call with the federation's representatives and set up a dedicated wiki page.

OmanKID - technically suspended. 

The Steering Committee decided to revoke the membership of OmanKID.

ACTION: eduGAIN secretariat and OT to take the appropriate steps to remove OmanKID.

Could the membership offer mentorship to new federations.

AOB

ACTION: Set up meeting dedicated meeting about REFEDS. 

Future meetings, Summary and Actions

ACTION: secretariat to send out a doodle for the next meeting in May.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20260218&p1=16&p2=75&p3=47

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eduGAIN Town Hall: Friday 12 June (TNC) - input is welcome