20th Meeting: September 2012

Meeting Information, Venue and Hotels

The REFEDS Fall Meeting 2012 took place in Utrecht, Netherlands in conjunction with the SURFnet / Internet2 VAMP meeting.

The live stream for the meeting can be found here.

The minutes of the meeting are available here.

Meeting Agenda

DRAFT AGENDA: Start time 09.30 – End Time 17.00 Welcome and REFEDS Updates (45 minutes)

• Agenda bashing (Licia Florio)
• Last meeting minutes approval and related actions (Licia Florio)
• Reports, budget and next meetings (Licia Florio)
• REFEDS and RFC: Progress on Individual Stream and Steering Committee Processes (Leif Johanson and Heather Flanagan)

REFEDS Workplan Presentation (45 minutes)

• REF2 Barrier to Effective Federation Use
  – Discovery project (Nicole Harris) (no slides)

11.30 – 11:45 Break

• REF4 Federation Harmonisation
  – Federation Policy Harmonisation (Marina Vermezovic)
  – Update on Code of Conduct (Mikael Linden)

REFEDS Workplan Presentation

12:30 – 13:15 Lunch

REFEDS Workplan Presentation (45 minutes)

• REF5 Inter-federation (50 min)
  – PEER service development

Working with New Communities (60 minutes)

• REFEDS Response to the FIM Report (Licia Florio)
• Virtual Campus Hub Project (Merete Badger)

15:00 – 15.30 Break

Updates and Future Planning

A.o.B

• Macedir / Entity Categories and relationship (KJK)
• Levels of Assurance / InCommon Silver (KJK)
• Contracts (KJK)
• Federation operator best practice/reference model (BS / LJ)
• What does the metadata signature mean? Do we interpret the signature the same way? (LJ)
• Service Provider liaison in an interfederation environment (NH)
• SLO – moving forward. (CP)
• Formally define an ‘IdP of Last Resort’ appliance (CP)