[Tf-aai] Some comments about Andrés report and developments in Finland

[Martin Matthiesen]

Hello André,

Thanks for the memo, I thought it was interesting, especially:

> 2. ~11% of eduGAIN IdPs now have embedded the R&S entity category.

Most of our SPs are released through DFN-AAI to eduGAIN and are marked as R&S, this is good news for us.

> 3. As usual eduGAIN did some resonable progress in terms of country memberships
> and IdP coverage. The focus has now changed from federation menbership to try
> to aproach 100% IdP participation within each federation. This sounds great for
> us.

This was indeed interesting and I think it is a reasonable step.

Maybe members of this list are interested to know that we in Finland will no longer register CLARIN SPs via Haka, but rely on eduGAIN for Metadata distribution. This solves several practical problems and introduces only a few new ones. From our consortium only the Jyväskylä IdP would need to join eduGAIN, all other universities can already connect to all CLARIN SPs via eduGAIN. Instead of putting a lot of unfunded work into making Metadata transfer from SPF to Haka smoother, we can actually concentrate on helping the remaining universities to join eduGAIN. Finland are by no means leave the SPF, we try to achieve its goals by different means.

Regards,
Martin

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "André Moreira" <andre at clarin.eu>
> To: "tf-aai" <tf-aai at lists.clarin.eu>
> Sent: Friday, 2 February, 2018 20:21:07
> Subject: [Tf-aai] Report from the eduGAIN Trust and Identity Meeting on the 7th of December 2017

> Dear all,
> 
> First of all allow me to apologise for the delay sending this report.
> I have attended to the eduGAIN Trust and Identity Meeting on the 7th of December
> only [1].
> 
> The meeting was not extremely interesting for CLARIN since its main focus was
> the final public consultation on the future GÉANT Project workplan for trust
> and identity (2019 and beyond).
> Still, there were some ineteresting points that caught my atention:
> 
> 1. GEANT is planning to build an eduGAIN service catalogue which can be a very
> useful resource for both users and identity federations, including us. No dates
> were mentioned for this and I got the impression that this was still in a
> preliminary conceptual phase.
> 
> 2. ~11% of eduGAIN IdPs now have embedded the R&S entity category.
> 
> 3. As usual eduGAIN did some resonable progress in terms of country memberships
> and IdP coverage. The focus has now changed from federation menbership to try
> to aproach 100% IdP participation within each federation. This sounds great for
> us.
> Currently the total IdP coverage rate has raised to ~57%. All national
> federations from CLARIN countries have shown some progress in this respect
> (exception of course the ones already with full coverage).
> For more details on this matter please take a look to Brook Schofield's
> presentation [2].
> 
> 4. The newly created eduGAIN support desk as handled ~120 tickets in about 8
> months at the time of the meeting [3].
> 
> 5. There was not much discussion on the new GDPR but some aspects of it seem to
> be rather problematic to implement. Nicole Harris refered as an example that:
> using  the R&S entity category is mentioned by the best pratices for compliance
> with the GDPR, however eduGAIN will not try to enforce this.
> 
> 
> The minutes of the meeting are available here:
> https://wiki.geant.org/display/eduGAIN/eduGAIN+Town+Hall+Meeting+20171207#eduGAINTownHallMeeting20171207-FederationsinAttendance(26)
> 
> And all presentaions here:
> https://geant.app.box.com/s/a7wks12rxvwg9b7l5u8f2y4g0ia52yw9
> 
> If you have any comment or doubt about any of this, please free to ask, I will
> do my best to clarify it or ask eduGAIN for clarification.
> 
> 
> Have a nice weekend and kind regards,
> ----
> André Moreira
> CLARIN ERIC
> https://www.clarin.eu
> 
> 
> [1] -
> https://wiki.geant.org/display/eduGAIN/eduGAIN+Town+Hall+Meeting+20171207#eduGAINTownHallMeeting20171207-Thursday7thDecember-13:30-17:00
> [2] - https://geant.app.box.com/s/3dc9m3o24liqt7uwcbl28soz3f0gjyjh
> [3] - https://geant.app.box.com/s/4zkxy8wxgxezmw8r8dgtnx0yum18icbi
> 
> 
> 
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