GÉANT3plus Enabling Users Pilots
Lukas Hämmerle
Task Leader "Enabling Users"
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GÉANT3plus
Started in April 2013
Two-year project (most probably followed by GÉANT4)
43 Partners of 41 countries
€ 72M total costs (EC contribution € 39M)
SA5 Activity "Service Applications" contains tasks:
eduroam
eduPKI
eduCONF
eduGAIN and Moonshot
Federation as a service
Enabling Users <= That's us!!!
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Enabling Users Objectives
Be expert partner for large EU projects with AAI requirements
Actively collaborate with large international user communities
Based on well-defined, replicable use cases
Increase the practical use of AAI infrastructure
Extend interfederation technology and AAI functionalities
Help communities integrate their services into eduGAIN
Incorporating adoption and dissemination of Federation current
best- practice solutions
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Who is on Board
Ann Harding (SA5 leader), SWITCH
Mandeep Saini, DANTE
Maria "Lalla" Laura Mantovani, GARR
Marco Malavolti, GARR
Olivier Salaün, RENATER
Wolfgang Pempe, DFN
Lukas Hämmerle, SWITCH
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Our partners:
REFEDS: Research and Education FEDerationS
GÉANT3plus Federation-as-a-Service (FaaS) task
GÉANT3plus eduGAIN/Moonshot Task
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What has happened so far
March: FIM4R workshop in Villigen, CH
Suggestion to collect use-cases
April: GÉANT3plus started
GÉANT3plus Enabling Users Task + REFEDS invited to submit
use-cases
... and which use-cases were submitted?
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11 Use-Cases Submitted
CLIPC
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Use-Cases
Too many to work with all of them intensively at the same time
Focus on 3 use-cases initially
But we also keep in touch with other projects and provide
consulting/expertise (edugain-integration@geant.net)
Criteria for use-cases:
Time frame, variety, reproducibility, existing SAML know-how,
contribution, feasibility, ...
Only web-based use-cases in context of eduGAIN
– Non-browser use-cases covered in GÉANT Moonshot pilot
Use-cases with heavy use of credential translation (e.g. X.509 to
SAML) postponed because we (still) lack knowledge there
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May: Use-case review and evaluation
June: Decision on use-case collaboration and initial discussions
Focus on DARIAH, ELIXIR, Umbrella (CRISP/PanData)
July: Agreed work plan with Umbrella
August/September:
Work with DARIAH on Document "Options to join eduGAIN"
More on that by Ann Harding
Work with Umbrella (CRISP/PanData) on architecture options to
implement bridging
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FIM4R Requirements where GN3+
(SA5) is Active and Involved (9/2013)
Requirement Area
User friendliness and Ease of use
Browser federated access
Non-browser federated access
Bridging communities
Technology translators
Open standards and sustainable licenses
Levels of Assurance
Authorisation under community control
Well defined and harmonised attributes
Flexible and scalable attribute release
Attributes that cross national borders/Data Protection
Attribute aggregation for authorisation
Privacy and data protection
Import.
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Status
Active
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Partially active
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Outlook
October:
Agreed work plan with ELIXIR
Participation at DARIAH workshop
November:
Agreed work plan with DARIAH-DE
2013/2014
Set up a new Knowledge Database
– Location: wiki.edugain.org
– Will contain many practical how-to's
Integrate some of GEANT's own services in eduGAIN
– E.g. GEANT Intranet (Sharepoint!)
– Will document the steps on Wiki
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