An open discussion list for topics related to the eduGAIN interfederation service.

[Olivier Salaün <olivier.salaun AT renater.fr>]

Hi all,

Discussions during the last TF-EMC2 OpenSpace in Zurich made me realize RENATER's articulation with eduGAIN needed to be changed and I hope to get some feedback from this group regarding this change.
 
Until now French IdPs and SPs had to opt-in to get their metadata included to eduGAIN metadata. We know this workflow does not scale because our IdP admins are not familiar with eduGAIN SPs use cases and it would take us a huge effort to convince IdP admins to opt-in for eduGAIN.

We now consider to change our workflow.

• The plan is to move to eduGAIN opt-out for our IdPs only;
  
• opt-in would still apply to French SPs willing to join eduGAIN.
  
• By default, all French IdP metadata would be published in eduGAIN upstream metadata.
  
• We would also include eduGAIN SPs metadata into our federation metadata file (renater-metadata.xml).
  
• Our federation registry will let IdP admins perform eduGAIN opt-out if they wish.
  
• We already publish attribute filters for Shibboleth IdPs; a new attribute-filter file would include all eduGAIN SPs (or the ones that are CoC compliant).

We foresee this change will increase interest in eduGAIN as an AAI infrastructure and will limit support to eduGAIN SPs for RENATER.
ON the other end:

1. the attribute release issues remains until IdPs use the attribute filters we will provide
   
2. we end up mixing national and international SPs in our national metadata file.

I look forward to get your feedback :)

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Olivier Salaün GIP RENATER Etudes et Projets Applicatifs (EPA) Tél : +33 2 23 23 71 27

http://www.renater.fr

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