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

[Lukas Hämmerle <lukas.haemmerle AT switch.ch>]

Dear colleagues

Identity federations and eduGAIN are all about exchanging attributes. If
attribute release does not work properly, running a federated identity
management infrastructure is pointless.

Because attribute release in eduGAIN (and federations!) still causes
problems for many research services, the GÉANT project organized a
well-attended webinar in July on the topic of "Successful Attribute
Release". Not all interested people could participate at this live
webinar. Because they live in another time zone, because they already
had another meeting, because they just couldn't.

Good thing that there is now the online training "Successful Attribute
Release", which is available 24/7 all around the world. Compared to a
live webinar the online training provides more details, more
interactivity and more content in general to teach Identity Provider
administrators about attribute release. Questions that pop up during the
course still can be asked: Either by asking them live on
https://edugain.slack.com/ or sending them to support AT edugain.org.

The topics of the online training include:

* Federated Identity Management and eduGAIN
  General introduction into the topics

* Attribute Release and impact on users and services
  Why bad attribute release hinders research and what
  could be done by IdP administrators to fix this

* eduGAIN IdP Health Check
  A five-step test to check if an IdP is properly set up
  in eduGAIN and if it releases attributes to service using
  entity categories.


Where is the "Successful Attribute Release" online training?
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It's hosted on the GÉANT Learning and Development (GLAD) e-learning
platform. The direct link to the online training is:
https://e-academy.geant.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=22

Btw. there is also a worthwhile online course on SIRTFI:
https://e-academy.geant.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=2


Who should attend the course?
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We invite all Identity Provider administrators to take the online
training because only they can help fixing insufficient attribute release.

We encourage also federation operators to have a look at the online
training and then recommend it to their local IdP administrator community.


Who created the online course?
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The course was created by the GÉANT project with help from the GÉANT
Learning and Development Team. Much of the content was reused from the
AARC Project's live training (2016 in Prague) on attribute release.


Best regards and let the attributes flow!
Lukas


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