REFEDS Meeting, Dublin – 18th May 2014
Meeting Information, Venue and Hotels
The meeting was held in conjunction with TNC2014. For more information, please visit the TNC2014 website.
The list of attendees is online. The minutes of the meeting are now available.
Meeting Agenda -18th May 2014
REFEDS meetings are co-chaired by the REFEDS Coordinators, Licia Florio and Nicole Harris.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:30-09:45 | Welcome and General Update, Licia Florio |
| 09:45-10:15 | Metadata Query Protocol and other Specifications, Ian Young Ian will present the REFEDS funded work to define a simple protocol for retrieving metadata about named entities, supporting approaches for distributed metadata registry and aggregation. |
| 10:15-10:45 | FedLab and REFEDS, Roland Hedberg FedLab is a GEANT initiative providing tools for testing and monitoring components used in Identity Federations. Roland will discuss the potential role for REFEDS in this work. |
| 10:45-11:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:15-12:15 | Service Updates This session will review the services currently provided by REFEDS and their status: – REEP – the REFEDS public metadata registry, Leif Johansson. – MET – the Metadata Explorer Tool, Nicole Harris. |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | Federation Operators Update This session will review work to improve current Federation Operational Practice: – FOG – the Federation Operators Group, Peter Schober. – FOP – a template for Federation Operator Practice, Nicole Harris. |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 – 14:10 | Trust and Identity Coordination among European NRENs, Valter Nordh |
| 14:10 – 15:00 | Interfederation is real – what can REFEDS do to help? – Code of Conduct Update, Mikael Linden. – Entity Categories, Nicole Harris. – eduGAIN, Brook Schofield. – Open Discussion. |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | K12, Where are we? Ken Klingenstein.This session will look at the progress in providing Identity Federations to primary and secondary education organisations. |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | AA Collaboration or How to Get Attributes from Multiple Sources, Kristof Bajnok. Kristof will explore the GEANT work to all attributes to be aggregated from multiple sources in the Identity Federation space. |
| 15:40 – 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | UMA, Maciej Machulak. Maciej will describe the work of UMA, a Kantara Initiative giving individuals the tools to control authorisation decisions. |
| 16:30 – 17:20 | Everything as a Service, Group Discussion. There is an increasing trend to provide Identity Federation infrastructure as a service (IdP as a Service, Federation as a Service, Virtual Organisations as a Service). In this session we will invite discussion on existing tools in this space, progress, future directions and the REFEDS role. |
| 17:20 – 17:30 | Wrap-up, Next Meetings, Licia FLorio and Nicole Harris |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | REEP Key Ceremony – attendees welcome to stay and observe |