eduGAIN SG-2019 September

eduGAIN Steering Group Meeting

Tuesday 17th September 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 CEST (in your timezone)

Please Note that the above time is CONFIRMED.

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Attendance

Federations in Attendance (xx)

1. Australian Access Federation (AAF)
2. ...

Attendees (xx)

1. Casper Dreef, GÉANT
2. Davide Vaghetti, IDEM/GARR
3. Terry Smith, AAF
4. ...

Apologies (xx)

1. Brook Schofield, GÉANT
2. Nicole Harris, GÉANT

Notes

Welcome, Introductions & Agenda Agreement

The Chair welcomed everyone to the 3rd meeting of 2019.

See the Open Actions & Previous Meeting notes. The major open action will be covered within the meeting.

Membership Updates and Joining

For details on new members and candidates see https://technical.edugain.org/status and work on progressing new members is underway.

Two candidates currently under assessment.

• Malta/RiċerkaNet Identity Federation
• Kyrgyz Republic / KRENA Identity Federation (KIF)

eduGAIN Town Hall

Possible Locations and dates?

• TechEX - December, 2019
• TIME 2020 - February, 2020
• Other options?

eduGAIN "baselining"

The eduGAIN Compliance Issues wiki page has been updated but required more attention and this is an ongoing process.

• Countries in [Region] with no Federation (nn), currently only available for Europe, extend to all regions?

Validator report at https://technical.edugain.org/profile_v2 now shows:

• 4 red (non-compliant)
• 44 yellow (partially compliant)
• 15 green (fully compliant)

resolving eduGAIN issues

R&S, SIRTIFI, baselining, validators and the many other tools are all helping to resolve and even prevent issues occuring 

for a researcher in one nation seamlessly accessing a service on the other side of the planet. When it all works great!

But when it doesn't determining the fault can be complex. Issues include;

• federation and organisation policies
• awareness
• working across many organisational and national boundaries
• working across time zones

Simple guidance for commuting issues and identifying parties that need to be involved?

Improving awareness for organisations and federations?

Sharing and tracking the issues and the solutions?

Future meetings

The next SG meeting was confirmed to take place on Tuesday 10th December 2019 13:00 UTC Drop in sessions:

• 15th October *Asia* 7:00 UTC / 9:00 Amsterdam / 00:00 Los Angeles / 3:00 Washington / 18:00 Sydney
       - https://timeanddate.com/s/3skv

• 12th November *Americas* 20:00 UTC / 21:00 Amsterdam / 12:00 Los Angeles / 15:00 Washington / 07:00 Sydney
       - https://timeanddate.com/s/3skw

AoB and Close

No other business was raised. The meeting closed on time.