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| Title | VO friendly eduGAIN |
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| Description | REFEDS may have a role in providing broader community input into eduGAIN policies and services. eduGAIN needs more education and explanation of what's possible within federations that are a part of eduGAIN - simply saying "they are a member" does not mean that all federations integrate with eduGAIN in the same manner. There may be some integration between this and the service catalog work, as that kind of information on what's possible may involve more detailed metadata information in the eduGAIN feed. |
| Proposer | TIIME 2018 |
| Resource requirements | ? |
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| General Comments | NH: This is a known and desired part of the eduGAIN workplan. Issue is manpower bottleneck. Is there anyone in GN4 that could take the lead on this? SURFnet: What would be the concrete role of REFEDS for this activity? SK @SURFnet: Develop documentation that explains that a country being colored in blue on the eduGAIN map does not mean that an SP can expect all users at all educational institutions in that country to suddenly have federated access to the SP. In that same documentation provide a comprehensive explanation of what it really means for an SP to try and leverage eduGAIN. In short, manage expectations of SP operators. |
| Title | The .int federation for non-legal entities |
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| Description | The upcoming FIM4R paper talks about a boundary-less international federation suitable for research and scholarship organizations that are not legal entities. This group would talk about how to make that happen. |
| Proposer | TIIME 2018 |
| Resource requirements | ? |
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| General Comments | PS: I think that's trying to solve the problem by proliferating/creating another: EU IDPs won't be able to legally release attributes to non-legal entities, IMO (GDPR hint: Both Controller and processor are legal entities. Joint controllership means shared legal duties. etc. My guess is the EU won't accept accountabiltiy/responsibility for recieved data vanishing completely, doubly so for SPs outside EU/EEA.) Work on fixing the "lack of legal entity" problem more literally would then take care of federating and possible/additional/future attribute release obstacles (once people really start looking at federation and GDPR). |
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