...
Nick (InCommon) working on the baseline expectations programme and it will require members to have minimum usability requirements by 14 December otherwise they will be excluded from the federation. Adoption quickly rose from 25% to 50% but has leveled out. More work required to accelerate this again. Two new hires. MDQ service built on AWS Lamba to make per entity metadata available. Will be migrating people to new metadata endpoint.
José Manuel (SIR) the federation still exists which has 2 people. Migrating to SIR2 federation. Will be stopping PAPI as a protocol. MRPS will need to be updated. entityIds will be kept, but end-points will change at some moment. Will be using Jagger for metadata management and promoting entity categories and developing local categories. SIRTFI. MDQ. IdPaaS Proof of Concept being developed. Connected to Spanish eIDAS node. Was previously offering STORK.
Alejandro (COFRe) working on the issues for SAML profile compliance for eduGAIN. This requires an upgrade to pyFF.io. Also publishing RedCLARA services to eduGAIN for the wider Latin American community.
Halil + Zenon (GRNET) Halil has recently joined the Trust & Identity team. Production MDQ service. Depricating the legacy entity grouping mechanism that they provided their membership and use of entity categories. Moving to "opt-in" vs "opt-out". Metadata size is too large and people don't want to load large dataset and want a production MDQ service.
Miro (AAIEduHr) focusing on operations and team is small
Carlos Ramirez (ColFIRE) xxx
Pål (SWAMID) working extensively on multifactor. Needs to have a step further than REFEDS MFA profile with the need for identity proofing. Aiming for an end of year deployment. Working with Libraries (public Libraries - not University Libraries) for identity proofing.
Farhan (SIFULAN) identity workshop scheduled for 10 October to encourage media publishers to join the federation and promote eduGAIN.
Boro (AAIEduMk) reporting from the airport that the Macedonian AAI that they had extended to primary and secondary schools and working on enlargement to all of the universities. Statistics and measurement as a secondary project.
Davide (IDEM) working on the SAML profile compliance (only completed yesterday) and enabling publisher to work with IdPs via eduGAIN. Interoperability isn't a given and has been challenging. Putting MDQ in production by years end - and working on IdP in the Cloud service. Working with government ID as a 2nd factor.
Jean Carlo (CAFé) two big initiatives. Implementation of SIRTFI and focused on the first institution working by end of the year. Developing a roadmap for 2019 and moving the use of federated auth and updating UX/UI to improve design. BReduPerson schema update and adoption of ORCID. Working on improving the deployment of their tools and collaborating with IDEM.
Chris asked that since OpenID Connect wasn't touched on during the call and that there is a way to promote OIDC via membership of the Open ID Foundation. Davide said that the mailing list and group will be setup shortly and people should move there for focus on this. Chris stated that there is the OIDCre group within REFEDS is a useful initial group. The community and interlectual property rules are different in this space. Davide said that Open ID Foundation isn't significantly different than OASIS.
Lynda.com was going to move toward LinkedIn and Chris' request via eduGAIN Support and statistics provided by ...
...
- ACTION-TBA: TBA
TOPIC...
...