eduGAIN Steering Group Meeting
Tuesday 13th November 2018, 13:30 - 15:00 CET (in your timezone)
Please Note that the above time is CONFIRMED.
12:15 UTC | Arrival & "Can you hear me now?" (see Connection Details)
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12:30 UTC | Welcome, Introductions & Agenda Agreement |
12:45 UTC | Membership Updates and Joining
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13:05 UTC | eduGAIN "the brand" (based on Haka email to eduGAIN-SG Mailing List)
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13:25 UTC | SIRTFI
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13:45 UTC | Future SG Meetings
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13:50 UTC 14:50 CET | Any other business, Summary and Actions
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14:00 UTC | Meeting Close (or we are running over time). |
Connection Details
H323: https://call.lifesizecloud.com/otherways/2410313 H323:169.57.7.200##2410313
- SIP: 2410313@lifesizecloud.com
Phone: tel:+31858884440,2410313# or https://call.lifesizecloud.com/numbers
- Slack: https://eduGAIN.org/slack
Attendance
Federations in Attendance (xx)
- Belnet
- IDEM
- SIFULAN
- TAAT
- RCTSaai
- SAFIRE
- DFN-AAI
- InCommon
- AAI@EduHr
- eduID.cz
- UKf
- PIONIER.Id
- SWITCHaai
- RIF
- GRNET
Attendees (xx)
- Brook Schofield, GÉANT
- Pascal Panneels, Belnet
- Davide Vaghetti, GARR/IDEM
- Muhammad Farhan Sjaugi, SIFULAN
- Sten Aus, TAAT
- Esmeralda Pires, RCTSaai
- Péter Molnár, eduID.hu
- Donald Coetzee, SAFIRE
- Guy Halse, SAFIRE
- Nick Roy, InCommon
- Wolfgang Pempe, DFN-AAI
- Miroslav Milinovic, AAI@EduHr
- Jiri Borik, eduID.cz
- Rhys Smith, UK federation
- Maja Gorecka-Wolniewicz, PIONIER.Id
- Lukas Hämmerle, SWITCHaai
- Alex Mwotil, RIF
- Zenon Mousmoulas, GRNET
- Halil Adem, GRNET
Apologies (xx)
- Peter, ACOnet (mandatory internal meeting)
- Alejandro Lara, REUNA (Internal meeting)
- Scott Koranda (sick)
- Raja Visvanathan, INFLIBNET
- Nicholas Mbonimpa, RIF
Notes
Welcome, Introductions & Agenda Agreement
The Chair welcomed everyone to the 7th meeting of 2018.
For details on new members and candidates see https://technical.edugain.org/status and work on progressing new members is underway.
Outstanding Issues with Federations
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Nick stated that InCommon have a new engineer... not are able to modify members metadata without positive action by participants. Working to address this.
CAF - is looking at the lack of their MRPS.
Guy's question about why the existing validator exists and why can't the new validator be visible to send the correct message to federation. about using "why" and Tomasz answer - backed by Nick and Rhys. Guy clarified that there are warnings that are not issues in the new validator.
SIFULAN/Farhan - what to do about their key?
Chris - clarified that it is only for upstream metadata.
Guy asked about ECC certificates. Stefan has tried that. Maja to clarify if the MDS+Validator can do this. Rhys says that ..... Guy has a scenario with HSMs that don't support >2k RSA keys and ECC - smaller new federations might want to use USB based HSMs (Nitrokey, Cryptosick, et al) to gain experience before investing in more costly ones, and many of these still only support 2K keys but do aslo support ECC, so a 3K restriction rules out HSMs. So ECC is a path forward. Rhys said that this should be started and there can be a phased approach to move toward endpoint testing/support for ECC certificates.
[ACTION] Brook to confirm with Maja the readiness of the MDS+Validator for ECC support.
"brand"
* Nick stated that HAKA requires signed authentication requests from SPs and this could cause some interoperability problems and isn't included in the next version of SAML2Int.
Timo clarified that this message was a request from the HAKA Steering Group and wasn't universally supported by the HAKA team. They are wanting services to adopt eduGAIN.
Nick stated that the REFEDS Service Catalogue paper released by Heather could be used to highlight services.
Chris Phililps stated that use of eduGAIN witihn CAF is significant but they want it to be increased and improve the knowledge of reachability of services for key researchers (not just overall volume of users).
Miro stated "Catalogue for End Users". Chris suggested "Service Directory". Nick Roy said a quick win could be the adding of search over MDUI Display Name within MET. Tomasz said that the eduGAIN entities database has this feature but lacks URLs. Nick also suggested that having a button/form to request services being exported to eduGAIN could also be made available. Chris Phillips stated that some members of CAF have had the issue that there are services that aren't accessible (because they aren't in eduGAIN). Nick mentioned the ability to decorate entries within MET. Once we have a repository of this data we could drive discovery services via those feeds.
REFEDS 2019 work plan is being prepared.
Common requests for "what's in eduGAIN" from federation.
SIRTFI
Scott Koranda is unable to join todays meeting. There are regular SIRTFI conference calls co-ordinated by Tom Barton. At the last call (last Thursday) there was a request to send this information to the eduGAIN SG for their comment on whether the output of the SIRTFI+ registry is likely to be injested into eduGAIN (or how would federations make this available). The TechEx SIRTFI presentation slides are also available to inform the SG of the progress of SIRTFI and SIRTFI+ registry work.
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- ACTION-TBA: TBA
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Future meetings
There is no future meeting for 2018.