Carry out development based on OpenID Connect (OIDC), specifically for extending the standard to make OIDC “federation and interfederation capable” (i.e. OIDC metadata, discovery, etc.), including engaging with and contributing to the IETF and developing a potential OIDC profile for eduGAIN.
During the GN4-2 the OpenID Connect Federation specification (from here on openid-federation) was implemented and had a major rewrite. At the same time a profile targeted to R&E identity federations was drafted.
The work on the specification consisted in both supporting the main editor, Roland Hedberg, and engaging with multiple R&E communities in order to collect needs, feedback and suggestions.
In the GN4-2 a full plugin for OIDC in Shibboleth is build. The code was build in agreement with the Shibboleth developers, and reached beta status
Code & Background - https://github.com/CSCfi/shibboleth-idp-oidc-extension
The beta release - https://github.com/CSCfi/shibboleth-idp-oidc-extension/releases/tag/v0.8.0b
Training material
Project participants of the OIDCfed task members were one of the founding members of the OpenID Foundation R&E Working Group, founded in Oct 2018, in order to get a broader base for the OIDC work within R&E, with focus on:
Charter: https://github.com/daserzw/oidc-edu-wg/releases/tag/v1.0.0
WG Homepage: https://openid.net/wg/rande/
During the GN4-2 project instances of the OJOU (OAuth2, JW*, OpenID Connect and UMA) Course were held in Espoo (fi), Budapest (hu) and Rome (it), which focussed on the fundamental basics of OpenID Connect and it's underlying protocols.
Course material: https://github.com/rohe/ojou_course