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As part of its planning process for the workplan for 2011-2012, REFEDs h=
as identified 5 clear objectives for its initial start-up period:
- REF1: Raising the Profile of REFEDs and REFEDS Coordination;
- REF2: Barriers to Effective Federation Use;
- REF3: Boundary Solutions;
- REF4: Federation harmonisation;
- REF5: Interfederation;
- REF6: Identity assurance.
Documents related to this work will be uploaded here.
REF1: Raising the Profile of REFEDs
OWNERS
- Nicole Harris (JISC Advance), Licia Florio (TERENA), Christian Gijtenbe=
ek (TERENA).
AIM
- To strengthen the voice of the combined research and education federati=
ons internationally in identity and access fora to achieve directed input r=
ather than individual contributions. To empower REFEDs members to talk on b=
ehalf of the community and clearly identity research and education requirem=
ents in these fields.
WORK ITEMS
- Coordination of the various prioritised work items and overall reportin=
g. (15 days)
- Establish a clear web presence for REFEDs. (10 days)
- Review and improve the quality of information about federations and ent=
ities provided by REFEDs. This also includes establishing points of contact=
s with dependable communications for all major R&E federations and VOs.=
(4 days)
- REFEDs Promotion. (4 days)
- Improve the presence and coordination of REFEDs and its members in inte=
rnational fora such as Kantara and provide feedback to relevant work in the=
GN3 project
- Organising two main REFEDs meetings per year. (10 days)
DOCUMENTS & OUTPUT
REF2: Barriers to Effective Federation Use =
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OWNERS
- Nicole Harris, Andrew Cormack, Diego Lopez, Steven Carmody, WAYF.dk.
AIM
- To simplify the process for integrating new Service Providers in to fed=
erations, to effectively communicate changes in federation process to Servi=
ce Providers and to gain economies of scale for all federations from domest=
ication tools.
WORK ITEMS
- Address the concerns of Publishers in relation to the current process f=
or joining and understanding the requirements of research and education fed=
erations;
- Create a strategy for engaging with domesticated applications
- Provide recommendations to harmonise federation policies
- A revised version of the Discovery=
Project was presented at the REFEDS Meeting in Prague (May 2011); the =
proposed work is part of the REFEDS 2011 - 2012 workplan.
DOCUMENTS
Barriers for Service Providers
Service Provider Study Results - this work will be carrie=
d included in the work plan for REFEDS 2011 - 2012.
Federation Policy Mapping
Federation Policy Best Practise Approach<=
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Discovery Pr=
oject
REF3: Boundary Solutions
OWNERS
- Jaime Perez (RedIRIS), David Simonsen (WAYF).
AIM
- To improve the experience of users in non-federation environments. Many=
resources used on a regular basis by research and education users are not =
able to take full advantage of the federated experience for a variety of re=
asons. This workpackage will seek to make the interaction with such resourc=
es easier for users of federated identity via proxy and router solutions.=
li>
WORK ITEMS
- Develop a repository accessed and controlled by the federation to manag=
e the configuration rules for rewriting proxies;
PROPOSALS
REF 4: Federation Harmonisation
OWNERS
- Mikael Linden and Steven Carmody
AIM
- To work across education and research federations to align technologies=
, policies and schema where harmonisation benefits have been identified. To=
align direction of education and research federations with broader communi=
ties where appropriate.
WORK ITEMS
- Define models of attribute release suitable for IdPs and SPs worldwide.=
The work is carried out by the Attribute-release WG whose=
aim is to achieve consensus on a framework that Federations, IDPs, and SPs=
could adopt that would allow attribute release via a simple user experienc=
e. See [1] for more information on the developments.
- Achieve agreement on the use and of eduPerson attributes across REFEDs =
members and make recommendations for appropriate extensions to the eduPerso=
n schema;
- Support the integration of the SAML2 international profile amongst REFE=
Ds members. REFEDS will work to provide a home for SAML2int profile.
DOCUMENTS
REF 5: Interfederation
OWNERS
Lucy Lynch, Nicole Harris, Leif Johansson, Ken Klingenstein
AIM
- To explore all avenues of interfederation to create business models tha=
t work in a variety of contexts for the interfederation experience.
WORK ITEMS
- Understanding issues for providing metadata for shared community resour=
ces (e.g. the REFEDs wiki, the spaces wiki, the Czech medical atlas, etc;=
li>
- Support the implementation of eduGain and make appropriate recommendati=
ons to eduGain regarding issues around implementation and use.
DOCUMENTS
REF 6: Identity Assurance
OWNERS
AIM
- Explore all avenues of inter-federation to create business models that =
work in a variety of contexts for the inter-federation experience
WORK ITEMS
- Evaluate the current InCommon Silver and Kantara assurance frameworks t=
o produce a recommendation for an assurance profile to be used across R&=
;E federations
[Note: during the latest REFEDs meeting it was agreed to make this work-=
item active].
DOCUMENTS
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