eduGAIN Federation Development Meeting
Monday 8th 22nd June at 12:30-13:30 CEST via eduGAIN Connect Room
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Attendees
- Brook Schofield, GÉANTNadia Sluer
- Aleksandra Radulovic, GÉANTMREN
- Peter Bogatencov, RENAM
- Valentin Pocotilenco, RENAMTemur Maisuradze, GRENA
- Vasko Sazdovski, MARnet
- Hrachya Astsatryan, ASNET-AM
Apologies
Apologies
- Nadia Sluer, GÉANT
- Peter Bogatencov, RENAMAleksandra Radulovic, MREN
Project Attendance
| NREN | Attended |
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| ASNET-AM | 1 |
| GRENA | 1 |
| MARnet | 2 |
| MREN | 1 |
| RENAM | 2 |
| URAN | 0 |
Agenda
1 Welcome and Introduction
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The status of all federations was updated on the federation development page and it will be updated overtime to reflect progress.
3 Current Roadblocks
MARnet/Vasko asked whether "self-signed" certificates were acceptable for signing federation metadata. This is very acceptable to the federation community. Care should be taken with public websites and the use of certificates that end users can trust.
4 Future Communication
- Member --> Participant: FCT|FCCN / RCTSaai - https://rctsaai.fccn.pt/
- Pilot --> Candidate: SANET / safeID - https://www.safeid.sk/
- Production --> Candidate: RESTENA / eduID.lu - http://www.eduid.lu/
3 Current Roadblocks
Policy Documents
A new version of the policy template document was created after LU and SK policy submissions as there were some common errors/corrections required. It is useful to socialise your policy prior to taking it to your wider community/board for approval.
The template is available as PDF and MS Word (.docx).
Jagger
Some difficulty for RENAM to install jagger (issues surrounded the version of PHP deployed, the Code Igniterversion and messaging system).
Suggested that Vasko and Valentin should work together on installation. Both have kept notes for their deployment and this would be useful information to pass back to the developer as documentation. The website http://jagger.heanet.ie/ and mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/jagger-rr are useful starting points. Ultimately we need more developers to contribute to https://github.com/Edugate/Jagger and the first step is to have more people use the product and determine what areas they'd like to see change.
The Jagger developer is also working within the GÉANT community and project.
Making a Jagger VM, Docker image or CHEF/Ansible install recipes could be useful.
IdP software
Many are looking at simpleSAMLphp.Some have also looked at Shibboleth v2 IdP.
There has been a Shibboleth v2 IdP end of life announcement so people should migrate to Shibboleth v3 IdP (this does NOT affect the Shibboleth v2 SP software). The SWITCH Shibboleth v3 guides https://www.switch.ch/aai/guides/idp/installation/ have been updated for v3. Many federations are looking into this.
RENAM is also trying to define middleware for mobile devices.
MREN supports a single university with a centralised IdP for eduroam purposes (supporting Ministry of Educatino and Ministry of Telecommunication + Montenegran Acadamy of Sciences and National Library of Montenegro). There is a desire to connect private universities.
MARnet is looking at using centralised system for running IdPs. It only stores usernames/passwords for staff - but not students.
Local Publicity for Federations
RENAM had its last disemination event on May 22 http://ictei.utm.md/doc/RENAM_UC.pdf
Look at using "unlocking collaboration" within MREN and other organisations to promote uptake of the NREN and its services.
TODO: Make the source materials available for translation.
Internet Exchange Points
There was an aside discussion on Internet Exchange points - not related to federation development but one of the activities that NRENs can received support for from the Internet Society (ISOC).
4 Future Communication
Migration to a new email list system will see this action delayed until lists.geant.org is availableSuggestion for a T1.3 specific mailing list, or a mailing list for all federation starters was discussed. Important because there are very similar needs for the participants. This will be investigated. Skype contact detalis were also shared and the task leader welcomed all participants to contact him directly via email/Skype for advice and guidance.
5 Any other Business
No other issues were raised at this time.
6 Date of Future Meetings
Next Meeting Monday 22nd 6th July 1211:3000-1312:30 00 CEST.