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These are the proposed top level areas for the 2020 workplan, drawn from proposals crowdsourced in 2019.

Approved by the REFEDS SC via e-vote on 11 February 2020.

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REF20-1: REFEDS Coordination and Management

Lead: Nicole Harris

Aims:

To progress REFEDS position as an important player within the access and identity management space internationally.
To build on established relationships with GÉANT project and other federation-related activities around the world.

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WORKITEMS	DESCRIPTION	ASSIGNED TO	START DATE	END DATE	STATUS
REF20-2A	FOG: Federation Operators Group	Peter Schober with support from Nicole Harris	01/2020	12/2020
REF20-2B	SIRTFI	Tom Barton with support from Nicole Harris	01/2020	12/2020
REF20-2C	Assurance	Jule Ziegler with support from Heather Flanagan	01/2020	12/2020	Working group to consider how the REFEDS MFA Profile uses the authnContextClassRef https://refeds.org/profile/mfa in the SAMLRequest to signal that MFA should be used for authentication. Microsoft ADFS cannot handle this authnContextClassRef and returns a FatalProfileException during authentication. Discussion notes from TechEx ACAMP session regarding REFEDS MFA in ADFS: https://bit.ly/2RTPgGb
REF20-2D	Entity Category Support	Nicole Harris	01/2020	12/2020
REF20-2E	Federation Trust 2.0	Tom Barton and Judith Bush with support from Heather Flanagan	01/2020	12/2020
REF20-2F	SPOG: SP Operators Group	Laura Paglione with support from Heather Flanagan	01/2020	12/2020
REF20-2G	Federation Baseline	Pål Axelsson and Alan Buxey with support from Heather Flanagan	01/2020	12/2020
REF20-2H	Best Practice around Error HandlingTBD	Fredrik Domeij with support from Heather Flanagan	02/2020	12/2020

Lead: Nicole Harris

Aims:

To provide materials and support mechanisms to help federations promote effective approaches to IdPs and SPs.
To provide feedback on documents produced by other groups to support clarity of messages.
To reach out to target groups where specific messaging could be beneficial.

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