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Description and Value Proposition
The eduGAIN interfederation service delivers a platform for the trustworthy exchange of metadata through the coordination of technical infrastructure and policy. This supports the needs of federations in establishing a common baseline for metadata interoperability and furthers the goals of federations to operate in a global identity access and service exchange.
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Engagement activities for the eduGAIN service are directed at both federations/NRENs and user communities. The operator community in particular is directly involved in the day-to-day governance of eduGAIN. The eduGAIN team has engaged with the federation operator community to gather feedback on a range of topics. The concluding months of the GN3 project and the initial months of the GN3plus project (covered by this Service Review Report) focussed on a review of the eduGAIN Policy Framework. This framework, initially conceived during the GN3 project, was updated with significant contributions from the community. All existing eduGAIN members adopted this updated policy. Engagement with research infrastructure projects wishing to use eduGAIN takes place via partner federations and directly via the Enabling Users team. Through this team, the eduGAIN community provides expert know-how for research communities looking to integrate their services with eduGAIN. The task seeks to pilot solutions to key user community challenges such as attribute management, non-web use cases, requirements assessments for LoA and other topics. eduGAIN is consistently represented at FIM4R and has been presented at e-infrastructure meetings to organisations such as PaNdata and DASISH
KPIs
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| Increase in Member Federations from GÉANT | Green |
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| Increase in Member Federations Beyond Europe | Green |
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| % of production federations participating in eduGAIN | Green |
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| Increase in IdPs & Services available via eduGAIN | Green |
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Roadmap
