Updates
Licia Florio, TERENA
florio@terena.org
REFEDS Meeting
5 Sept 2012
REFEDS Goals
 Forum for R&E Federations Operators:
 To develop best practise to facilitate interfederations
 Following the model: do it once, use it
multiple times
 Hopefully to offer a place for user-communities to
put forward their requirements/complaints
REFEDS Map
Last update May 2014
31 Production Federations
17 Pilot Federations
REFEDS Model
Steering Committee
REFEDS Workplan
Manpower
BUDGET
Sponsors
Current Work On:
 Federation Operators Practice Guidelines
(FOP)
 The guidelines will consist of 4 documents:
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Key Management Practice Statement (out for comments)
Metadata Registration Practice Statement
Monitoring Practice Statement
Assurance Practice Statement.
 https://refeds.terena.org/index.php/FOP
Entity Categories
 First category, Research and Scholarship published
in March 2014
 https://refeds.terena.org/index.php/Entity_Categor
ies
GÉANT
 EC funded project
 Caters mostly for NRENs
 Enabling Users has been a BIG step
forward to engage with communities
 Operates different services:
 eduroam in Europe
 eduGAIN
 others…
eduGAIN:
Inter-federation Infrastructure
MDS fetches, aggregates and
republishes metadata
eduGAIN provides policy framework to
build trust
eduGAIN Use-Cases
 Vast array of use cases.
 Wide ranging support for the community.
 If you want to know more about eduGAIN look for
Brook Schofield
AARC Call
› GÉANT preparation is on-going:
› Horizon
› Led heavily
2020 by
callNRENs
on AAI:
›› Open
Calls and
Enabling
usersand
helpe-Researchers
support
Consortium
with
both NRENs
use-cases
› community
Good opportunity
to work together as a team
›› Horizon
call on
Some of2020
the work
willAAI:
take place in REFEDS
› Consortium
with both NRENs and e-Researchers
but
funded
› Good opportunity to work together as a team
› Main topics:
› Some
of the
work response,
will take place
in REFEDS
› LoA,
Incident
training
and
but funded
outreach, attribute authorities
Slide
Slide99
Who Does What
AARC Call
LoA
Incident response
REFEDS
Proof of Concepts
(Guest IdPs,
Attribute providers,
etc.;)
Training/Outreach
GEANT