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Work Description

This work item will collaborate with JRA3, E-INFRA-7 and via REFEDs to address a subset of issues with regard to Levels of Assurance in identity federations and ultimately in eduGAIN from a service perspective.

The goal is to understand the service delivery implications of existing levels of assurance approaches to provide an extensible framework that suits the needs of research collaborations and users from different fields, and identify those that are achievable within a reasonable time frame within GÉANT.

The work will include:

  1. Active participation in the REFEDS working group on Levels of Assurance and contribution to the requirements for Levels of Assurance on behalf of eduGAIN.
  2. Requirements analysis of user communities and capability analysis of identity providers and federations, building on results from GN3plus and E-INFRA-7 pilots.
  3. Preliminary investigations of the business aspects/value proposition for LoA implementation e.g. high level adoption benefits and implications at pan-European, federation and campus levels.

Work Area Leader

TBD

Work Area Participants

TBD

Work Area Actions / Ideas

  1. This work area is going to be political and needs to work closely with various other groups including AARC, JRA3, Enabling Users and FIM4R - will probably need someone to travel and be available at all of these events.
    1. Primary requirement: feedback on discussions at the AARC kick-off and building relationships with that workpackage. 
  2. Need to talk extensively with campuses - work with federations to identify user groups to have discussions with.  NH has already started asking for these.
    1. Develop basic set of questions to ask around assurance schemes and achievability / expense of development. Overall aim is to look at the cost and impact of adopting assurance schemes on IdP organisations. 
    2. Road-test the idea of a step-up assurance service - separate vetting undertaken for small groups run as a separate service.  
  3. Compare back results of the above with original FIM4Paper requirements. 

 

 

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