Conncetion problems

The published ISDN number was wrong. Jürgen sent details with the correct numbers on the list.

Wiki access

Most people now have access to the wiki. Contact Licia if you have not yet an account.

Foodles

Not all have yet responded to the Foodles.

• Summer vacation
• Interest tracking
• Preferred weekday for meetings

Please.

Work plan for year 1

Please read through the following work plan:

• https://rnd.feide.no/content/géant3-jra3-identity-federations-workplan-year-1

The plan is to start with three work tracks for now, and start others later this year. The idea is to start with:

1. Metadata distribution
2. Virtual organizations
3. Identity Federation Harmonization

What I need the next days/weeks is to fill the work plan with real names. I've already included a tentative list of NRENs on each work track, but I need names here. I'll use the interest tracking Foodle as a basis.

Metadata distribution.

Work has already started. I invited to participate in testing a metadata aggregator on the list. Need as many participants as possible on this.

Virtual Organisations.

The idea is to start with an independent frontend and a backend. The frontend is a WebUI for administering groups and/or VO/attributes. The backend implements access to the service and retrieval of group/attribute information.

We most likely should implement and demonstrate multiple different backends and compare, summarize our experience.

• I have forwarded a draft document from SWITCH/Chad on how to implement a VO platform backend. Please comment!
• I'll write a different proposal on a backend using JSON and OAuth.
• And one using front channel Attribute Queries.

One task that can be started with right away is implementing Attribute Queries support in simpleSAMLphp. That will be needed as we start to play around with VOs. Please tell me if you are interested in implementing that.

Identity Federation Harmonization

The SAML 2.0 Interoperable Profile is already in a draft state and is used in 4-5 production federations. The profile needs to be polished, and pushed through standardization body like Oasis. I'll send a request for comments on the list soon.

Another hot item to start investigating and document, is attribute harmonization accross european federations. Let me know if you want to start working with this... This is something that I would be happy if we had someone starting with right away.

User centric identity

Interest was raised to write a document summarizing our experience and current status of the use of OpenID in federations.

Tentative list of participants:

1. Licia
2. Torsten
3. RedIRIS

Federation tools

We have experienced programmers / users of both SimpleSAMLphp and Shibboleth. When we create proof of concepts we will document how it can be supported by these two products.

Question was raised of whether the eduGAIN software will be supported / maintained within Identity Federations:

• eduGAIN software components from GN2 JRA5, like registry, edugain base, PKI, etc will NOT be maintained within Identity Federaitons. The future of these components are unclear, and part of an ongoing discussion on eduGAIN. A dedicated working group will go into these details. More on that later.
• Still, much of what will be done in Identity Federations, is intended to be adopted by the edugain service activity.

Documentation formats etc.

Thanks to Ian Thomson for clearifying this:

Item 7 on the Agenda (Documentation) is, as Juergen points out, directly relevant to me as I'm the Technical Author assigned to JRA3 (and SA3, as it happens).

There is a Technical Author Wiki page that might give you information you need:

• http://wiki.geant.net/bin/view/NA1/TechAuthors

And on this page is an on-line presentation that explains our service in brief:

• http://cbt.geant2.net/repository/tech_authors/player.html

Ian mentioned SharePoint and workflow attached to it. In the early phase of the documents we are more free to use whatever tool / format we would like, but final documents needs to be in MS Word.

We need to find a convenient way of working with our documents in the early state. I am in favour of writing things in clear text and have support from a revision control system like subversion or git. Please share your thoughs on this.

Two types of documents:

1. Deliverables. Important.
2. Other documents.

Collaboration with SA3/edugain this summer.

Workgroup with individuals from SA3 and JRA3 to discuss eduGAIN future. Metadata distribution etc.

More information share on the mailinglist.