Work Description
This work item will collaborate with REFEDS and with E-INFRA-7 to support the work started in the REFEDS Federations Operations Practices on topics such as metadata management, key operations and others. The work will include:
- Participation in the Federation Operators group to further identify and refine the practices necessary to guarantee the integrity, availability and confidentiality of the federation operations service provided by the national identity federations.
- Piloting the best practice with a subset of federations in the GÉANT eduGAIN community .
- Driving take-up of support for operations best practice within the GÉANT eduGAIN membership by bringing proposals for their adoption to the eduGAIN SG.
Work Area Leader
TBD
Work Area Participants
TBD
Work Area Actions / Ideas
- A Metadata Registration Practice Statement has been developed and circulated but not much feedback has been received. It is unclear whether this is because people are unhappy with the document / uninterested / think it is fine. Next steps would be to talk to the edugain SG about whether they would recommend this as a standard template for federations.
- Work with edugain SG to document adoption based on this statement.
- https://wiki.refeds.org/display/FBP/Federation+Operator+Best+Practice+-+FOP details proposed next steps in developing best practice. Need to ratify a direction for this and what next? Key Management might be interesting but has few use cases that push a need for its development. Publication is an important and problematic area. Need to work with edugain OT and SG on this one.
Expected Outputs?
- Finalised MRPS agreed with the edugain SG and OT.
- Recommendations on publication best practice.