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eduGAIN: Interfederation is real – what can YOU do to help?

eduGAIN: Interfederation is real – what can YOU do to help?. Brook Schofield, eduGAIN Product Manager / Task Leader Project Development Officer, TERENA REFEDS, Dublin, Ireland Sunday, 18 th May 2014. About me…. Brook Schofield mailto:schofield@terena.org skype :// brookschofield

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eduGAIN: Interfederation is real – what can YOU do to help?

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  1. eduGAIN: Interfederation is real – what can YOU do to help? Brook Schofield, eduGAIN Product Manager / Task Leader Project Development Officer, TERENA REFEDS, Dublin, Ireland Sunday, 18th May 2014

  2. About me… • Brook Schofield • mailto:schofield@terena.org • skype://brookschofield • tel:+31651553991 • http://terena.org/~schofield I work at TERENA. eduGAIN Product Manager & Task Leader in the GN3plus Project.

  3. Identity FederationsWorld Wide 31 Production Federations 17 Pilot Federations Last update May 2014

  4. eduroam FederationsWorld WideInterfederated and Interoperable last update April 2014, www.eduroam.org eduroam Pilot :-(

  5. Global Authentication INfrastructure

  6. eduGAIN & Federations 18 eduGAIN Members 2 Joining eduGAIN 9 Candidate Federation 1 April 2013

  7. eduGAIN & Federations 24 eduGAIN Members 6 Joining eduGAIN 1 Candidate Federation 1 April 2014

  8. eduGAIN & Federations 24 eduGAIN Members 7 Joining eduGAIN 0 Candidate Federation 15 April 2014

  9. eduGAIN & Federations Mission Accomplished 24 eduGAIN Members 7 Joining eduGAIN 0 Candidate Federation 15 April 2014

  10. eduGAIN & Federations Mission Accomplished …ALMOST 24 eduGAIN Members 7 Joining eduGAIN 0 Candidate Federation 17 Other Federations 18 May 2014

  11. eduGAIN & Federations 24 eduGAIN Members 7 Joining eduGAIN 0 Candidate Federation 17 Other Federations 18 May 2014

  12. eduGAIN:What Is it and How Does it Work? • MDS fetches, aggregates and republishes metadata • eduGAIN provides policy framework to build trust

  13. eduGAIN:A more “realistic” architecture

  14. eduGAIN:Some Statistics • April 2011: Official start of eduGAIN • Nov 2013: 21 Federationsare members (50%), 5 joining • Apr 2014: 24 Federations are members (51%), 6 joining • Entities: 253 IdPs, 117 SPs (369 in total)One IdP can represent for dozens of organisations and services depending on federation architecture => actual numbers are higher • Whole (academic) SAML landscape:47 Federations, 2539 IdPs, 5280 SPs (gathered from metadata)Not all of them need to be interfederated, e.g. many internal SPs Numbers from May 2014

  15. Lots of Applications  Lots of Use-Cases • Use Cases are good. • Vast variation in use case requirements aren’t.

  16. Brook in the Corner (on a Tuesday) • Anything I come up with just as I start my 2nd coffee on a Tuesday • Nicole is in the office • Brook wants to talk • Just had this idea… Don’t listen or let him talk to you! Nicole Harris

  17. schacVerifiableHornLength • You can’t trust self asserted horn length • schacHornLength Evil • Do you really need this? • Does anyone else need this? In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut http://arseniic.deviantart.com/art/Fancy-Unicorn-315363946

  18. Lots of Use-Cases  Broad Community • Vast array of use cases. • Wide ranging support for the community.

  19. eduGAIN: How can YOU help? • Join eduGAIN (if you haven’t) and Publish entities! • Use existing use-cases and explore how they support your community • GÉANT Data Protection Code of Conduct • Entity Categories • Offer new use-cases that REALLY HELP a community • Flesh it out internally, via the REFEDS community and then wider • eduGAIN doesn’t exist in a vacuum • We are willing to listen to your ideas… …even the crazy ones!

  20. Join eduGAIN and solve problems… Solving problems is a partnership.

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