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

[Arnout Terpstra <arnout.terpstra AT surfnet.nl>]

Dear all,

On 30 November 2015, prior to the EWTI event in Vienna, a 'Hub and Spoke 
Federation Club'-meeting will once again be organised. Just like last year, 
it is an informal discussion forum for anyone interested in Hub-and-Spoke 
federations in Research & Education. There will be plenty of room to discuss 
a wide variety of topics, from technical setups to challenges on a policy 
level.

With this message I would like to invite all to join this meeting. Although 
topics will likely be mostly interesting to Operators of Hub-and-Spoke 
federations, you are very welcome to join.

*Agenda*

- A plenary room will be available where all participants fit
- The first part of the meeting allows all participants to introduce 
themselves. It would be nice if during the introduction, everyone mentions 1 
biggest success and 1 biggest challenge of their federation from this year.
- After the plenary part, several break-out sessions will take place
- If you have any suggestions for topics during these sessions, please let me 
know in advance!
- Suggested (categories of) topics include:
        > Policies
        > Running H&S infrastructure
        > Security / Loadbalancing
        > Monitoring & metering
        > Working with eduGAIN
        > Technical (SP proxying, HSM, step-up authN, ...)
- Last years topics were:
        > Stepup authentication
        > Janus * HSM - how to do from ssp
        > PHPh - our new metadata ‘censoring' tool
        > Automated functional testing
        > proxy IdPs metadata publishing for eduGAIN
        > Hybrid architecture in general
        > SSP metadata performance - might be moot now
        > f2x2f - a generic tool for doing metadata transformation btw a 
‘flat’ representation (janus/forms) and xml
        > Meshing up a hub - When to do Hub-n-Spoke and when to do Mesh 
federation
        > OpenID Connect - Plans and implementations

*Venue*

- The venue for the meeting: MGC Messe, Leopold-Böhm-Straße 8, 1030, Vienna, 
Austria (https://goo.gl/maps/9C2bf). All other meetings the rest of the week 
are in the same venue. Follow the signs at the front of the building to the 
entrance.
- The meeting starts at 1300 and ends at 1800.
- A lunch (12:00 - 13:00) is available (pay yourself) in the cafeteria at the 
venue.
- A dinner location will be arranged. We will need to split the bill for 
dinner.

If you would like to participate in this meeting, please register here: 
https://eventr.terena.org/events/2188 (after logging in you can indicate if 
you want to participate in the H+S meeting).

See you in Vienna!

Best regards,
Arnout Terpstra
SURFnet

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