25 November 12UTC

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Agenda


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12UTCWelcome, Agenda Agreement and Open ActionsPål

Service Team Overview

Davide

Work Plan - Rebuilding eduGAIN trust

Nicole, Casper

Membership applications
Casper

AOBAll

Future meetings, Summary and Actions

Meeting Close

Attendees: Pal, Dalia, Bas, Francisca, Nicole, Casper, Davide, Maarten, Jonathan.

Apologies: Farhan

Notes:

Welcome, Agenda Agreement and Open Actions

Steering Committee elections are coming up. Current members were asked to consider to nominate themselves for another term.

Service Team Overview

Discussion on the mailing list about the security contact resulted in 8 new contacts. 61/83 members responded. The support team will start proactively follow up with the missing federations.

eduGAIN CSIRT
Communication challenge. The team randomised the sending of the original email to level the playing field. 
Openbugbounty reached out and the team investigated the issue, but nothing was found. 

Improvement of the feed by load balancing the aggregate and make back-ups  from two different sites, PCSS (Poland) and GARR (Italy) planned for end of 2025 or early 2026.

OpenID Federation Pilot and Technology Profiles Working Group:
Participation is good. The goal is to define a new protocol in eduGAIN. 

Work Plan - Rebuilding eduGAIN trust

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

Security contacts - see above. 
Annual audit - not the right time. Review the security contacts process. 
Review of the SAML profile. Privacy notice, support contacts assurance, security contacts. This activity is part of the Technology Profiles Working Group. Results are expected mid-2026. 
The challenge is to measure the requirements technically.  

Membership applications

NgREN IF (Nigeria) - assessment deadline 28 Nov.
BotsREN (Botswana) - first assessment ongoing
eduID.ml (Mali) - idem
CAFMoz (Mozambique) - The federation is onboarding new IdPs and are almost ready to kick-off the candidate process.

Earlier this year some potential candidates from the APAN region reached out expressing their interest to join eduGAIN. These initiatives didn't result in a formal application. Some discussion is needed to learn how eduGAIN business development and the secretariat could support these initiatives better. 

OmanKID - technically suspended. 
ACTION: decision on termination of membership at next meeting. 

AOB

No AOB was raised.


Future meetings, Summary and Actions

Assembly meeting agenda: eduGAIN Assembly meeting December 2025 - please let Casper know if you would like to add topics to the agenda.
Regular meetings in 2026. 

Action: secretariat to create doodle for next meeting after eSC elections.
Action: secretariat to create a meeting schedule for monthly meetings in 2026 after the eSC voting period.

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