Last year there was a question around 'time spent on development'. In addition to this question I think this also needs to be broadened to support other activities a federation operator needs to provide. i.e
- Time spent on support desk activities *
- Time spent on marketing and communication of the federation *
- Time spent on growing the number of organisations connected to the federation *
- Time spent providing consulting services
Other: (some of these were raised as TechX as important questions to add into the next survey)
- What are the top 5 activities/projects your federation is focusing on over the next 12-18 months (this could be both technical and non-technical)
- What do you see as your key challenges over the next 12-18 months?
- What percentage of your services are: Research, teaching and learning, scholarly, administration systems
- what is your priority in supporting eResearch/eScience communities in connecting up with your federation (High, Medium, Low)?
- Something about use of MFA in a federated context, if/how that currently works in $your federation.
- Something about "is R&S supported in $your federation?" "If so, what are the characteristics of that support".
- what metadata aggregation software do you use?
- how many different metadata aggregates do you have and for what purpose?
- does your federation filter (and how) entities from eduGAIN, by providing 'inbound' metadata aggregates?
- what entity categories are supported in your NREN?
- what TTS software are you using to handle issues?
- percentage of IdPs that are currently interfederation enabled
- percentage of IdPs expected to be interfederated by end of 2016
- max percentage of IdPs that you expect to reach (in a few years, lets say end of 2020)
- (if available) estimated of percentage of user accounts that are currently interfederation enabled