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Innovation through participation

eduGAIN: Interfederation and Policy

Brook Schofield eduGAIN Task Leader, GN3 Project schofield@terena.org

Innovation through participation

Agenda

What is eduGAIN? Project Expectations Current Status Policy Framework Roadmap

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connect • communicate • collaborate

What makes up eduGAIN?

• Metadata Distribution Service managed by an Operational Team
• Profiles and Policies to help harmonize the environment
• Code of Conduct to halt data protection FUD
• More info at http://eduGAIN.org/

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Project Expectations

• Pilot in April 2011

Battle Test MDS – It’s just an aggregator! Have people review & sign up to the Policy

• Production in July 2011

Officially low expectations “We’re the only game in town” Federations MUST want us!

• GN3 would finish in March 2013

Success!!!

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eduGAIN status (in numbers)

• 15 participant federations
• 2 candidate federations & 2 pilot participants
• 7 European federations not participating

AT, DK, EE, IE, PT, SI, UK

• 8 federations not participating

AU, CL, CN, IN, JP, NZ, OM, US

• 14 GN3 Partners without a federation (18 GN3+)

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Identity Federations

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European Identity Federations

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Naïve Roadmap…

http://www.tshirtlaundry.com/The-Underpants-Gnome_p_1441.html

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What happened?

• Failed to demonstrate “value” to all federations?

Joining isn’t a priority…

• Research Infrastructure Projects
• eduGAIN didn’t have 100% country reach

Research Infrastructures didn’t federate either

• Federation Resource Registries weren’t ready for “opt-in”
• Policy Framework, Profiles & Data Protection

Not as perfect as my daughter

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What did we do? What are we doing?

• “Brook’s Service Catalogue” à REFEDS MET
• http://terena.org/~schofield/servicecatalogue/

WARNING! Browser-site database in use! Then (August 2011) 24 entities; Now 94 entities (62 IdPs)

• FIM4RI – Paper and Roadmap
• GÉANT Code of Conduct
• Funding Resource Registry Updates (NZ, FR, IEàPT)
• Building Federation Capacity & “Federation-as-a-Service”

Goal of getting to 100% In progress now – Infrastructure + Policy training

…more in GN3+

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eduGAIN Policy Framework…

• Is it a “bridge” or is it a “barrier”?

If it is a barrier… then we need to address an issue. What are your federation requirements?

• Metadata Trust & Provenance

Affects federations differently (Hub&Spoke vs Mesh) Metadata download + incorporation

• Opt-in? Did it really protect anyone?
• Visibility of eduGAIN (not an advertising requirement)

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Newsflash! Policy Update Required

• NREN-PC and GN3-Exec want to get out of the “approval”

business

Has already happened for the GN3 eduroam Confederation Same requirement for eduGAIN Policy Framework

• We must update the policy!
• Lets fix “other problems” while we’re at it.
• Declaration + Metadata Profile + Constitution
• Not just policy: Technical Issues also.

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Policy Update Roadmap…

http://www.tshirtlaundry.com/The-Underpants-Gnome_p_1441.html

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