The 39th REFEDS meeting will be held on Monday 15th October 2018 as part of Internet2 Technology Exchange 2018. Join the discussion on the #refeds channel on Slack. Sign up at: https://edugain.org/slack.

The meeting will take place in Pacifica Ballroom 4, Loews Royal Pacific Resort.

Time Activity Speakers Description
09:00 – 09:20 Arrival, find your seats, get connected, have a coffee, find old friends
09:20 – 09:30  A very quick REFEDS Update
 Nicole Harris
  • We have an RFC!
  • Service Catalogue White Paper.
  • SFA and Assurance are published, what next?
  • MACE-Dir support and futures.
  • REFEDS Survey 2018.
  • CoCov2: What’s Going On?
09:30 – 09:50 MACE Dir Futures
 Chris Phillips and friends Announcement on futures of MACE Dir.
09:50 – 10:05 Logos!
 Keith Wessel / Nick Roy SAML2Int reviews and standardised requirements for logos in metadata.
10:05 – 11:00 OIDC: where are we as federations and where next?

OIDC Consultation

 Niels van Dijk et al Presentations and discussions on where we are with OIDC work as federations, what’s next and how we can get involved / need to evolve.
11:00 – 11:30 BREAK
11:30 – 12:30 Changing Models of Federation Tom Barton, Rhys Smith, Phil Smart This will be a panel-led room discussion on some of major issues being tackled by federations today.  Topics will include:

  • Internet2 baseline and beyond: how are we tackling federation maturity?
  • API use within federations.
  • eduID models and federations.
12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 14:20 Assurance in Federations Jule Ziegler et al An update on work on the REFEDS Assurance Framework and REFEDS Single Factor Authentication (SFA) Profile.
14:20 – 14:40 Sirtfi Working Group Update Tom Barton An update from the Sirtfi Working Group, including discussion on the proposed Sirtfi registry.
14:40 – 15:00 GN4-3: What’s New? Marina Adomeit and Licia Florio What’s new for trust and identity in the next round of the GÉANT project: GN4-3.
15:00 – 15:30 International Outreach Heather Flanagan An update on outreach work internationally.
15:30 – 16:00 BREAK
16:00 – 17:00 FIM4R and Federations This session will be an interactive discussion around the FIM4R paper, the requirements it outlines and how federations are meeting these challenges.