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| Title | Focus on R&S adoption |
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| Description | What is needed to jump start R&S programs in more national Feds? Produce recommendations, possibly including training, template processes and communication materials, live exchanges between Feds with established practices and others getting ready to dig into it. |
| Proposer | Ann West (communicated by Tom Barton, as version history will attest) |
| Resource requirements | Working Group with representation from a couple of national Feds already doing R&S with a couple not quite there yet. Maybe 6 conference calls and list support. Could lead to a further event programming activity. |
| +1's | Scott Koranda, Wendy Petersen (CAF), Ann West  , Andrew Cormack, Maarten Kremers |
| Consensus | Frame as continuing work on Entity Categories. Develop easy to consume legal opinion / cookbook. How do we assess success or failure? Tools for monitoring (see FedLab). |
| Title | Contacts in Metadata |
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| Description | As interfederation increases in scope, so does the importance of contact information in metadata. The goal of this work group is to clarify and perhaps profile the use of contacts in metadata. Possible work items include:
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| Proposer | Tom Scavo |
| Resource requirements | Federations have a long history of the use of contact information in metadata and so widespread agreement may be difficult to achieve but presumably the results of this working group will make it easier for entities to interfederate |
| +1's | Scott Cantor |
| Consensus | Lightweight review / survey of existing practice and report back for now. |
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| Title | Federation at scale |
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| Description | Determine next steps towards dynamic resolution of entity metadata. The assumption is that this is how metadata will eventually be obtained at transaction time. This activity might focus on furthering the development and experimentation with protocols and implementations for so doing, or on how metadata comes to be sourced for dynamic resolution, or on identifying criteria by which to assess that a given dynamic resolution mechanism is working well. The purpose is to gain further experience and not necessarily to attempt anything definitive as yet. |
| Proposer | Tom Barton |
| Resource requirements | This one might have some hard resource needs. Some development. An environment in which to try things out, somehow including IdP or SP instances with which to experiment. |
| +1's | Lukas Hämmerle |
| Consensus | Scope as continuation of MDQ work lead by Ian - encourage participation in pilot of this work (including edugain). |
| Title | Fresh Approaches to IdP Discovery |
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| Description | REFEDS has long appreciated the importance of IdP discovery in the federated model (see: REFEDS Discovery Guide). The current discovery model is dependent upon an aggregate of IdP metadata but advances in the distribution of per-entity metadata suggest that an aggregate may not always be available at the SP. A new model of IdP discovery in a world of per-entity metadata may be needed. Various approaches are possible:
The latter includes the OpenID account chooser but its relevance in this space is not well understood. The goal of this working group is to evaluate the various alternatives to IdP discovery and to recommend one or more approaches that warrant further consideration. |
| Proposer | Scott Cantor and Tom Scavo |
| Resource requirements | Note the overlap between this proposal and the proposal entitled "Federation at scale" above |
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| Consensus | Fold in to MDQ work. |
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| Title | Best practices for Hub-and-Spoke federation |
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| Description | Hub-and-Spoke federations operate a centralized authentication component as part of their Identity Federation. In Reseach and Education about 10 federations are currently running such a setup. This activity gathers best practices form those running such federations. Possible topics may include:
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| Proposer | Niels van Dijk |
| Resource requirements | Several conference calls, a wiki space, pehaps one or two f2f discussion meetings at existing venues |
| +1's | Laas Toom (EENet), José Manuel (SIR), Mads Freek (WAYF), Pieter van der Meulen (SURFnet) |
| Consensus | Take forwardProceed |