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Overview

Background and liaison with AARC project

The LoA task of the AARC project has published Milestone MNA3.1: Recommendations on minimal assurance level relevant for low-risk research use cases.
In April 2017 the AARC project has published Deliverable DNA3.1: Differentiated LoA recommendations for policy and practices of identity and attribute providers, applicable to research use cases.

The goal of this working group is to work together with AARC project to

deepen the Minimal assurance level recommendation to a profile that is specific enough that it can be self-assessed by home organisations
develop the differentiated LoA recommendations taking into account the constraints of the federations and home organisations
deliver orthogonal profiles that can be additive, eg, identity proofing separate from credential technology.

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Chair

Jule Ziegler

Mikael Linden (retired as WG chair)

Regular WG Calls

Regular biweekly Assurance WG Calls have been picked up again. They start as of April 09, 2020 at 16 CEST. Calls which have been scheduled so far take place at:

9.Apr.2020 04:00 PM, 23.Apr.2020 04:00 PM, 7.Mai.2020 04:00 PM, 21.Mai.2020 04:00 PM, 4.Jun.2020 04:00 PM, 18.Jun.2020 04:00 PM, 2.Jul.2020 04:00 PM,16.Jul.2020 04:00 PM, 30.Jul.2020 04:00 PM, 13.Aug.2020 04:00 PM, 27.Aug.2020 04:00 PM, 10.Sep.2020 04:00 PM, 24.Sep.2020 04:00 PM, 8.Okt.2020 04:00 PM, 22.Okt.2020 04:00 PM

Terms

The following terms apply to all REFEDS Working Groups:

When a working group is agreed, REFEDS Participants will be asked if they wish to participate. Working Groups tend to be small, so consensus can be achieved quickly between participants.
A chair for the group is chosen from the REFEDS Participants.
GEANT association provides facilities for the working group, including meeting support, wiki space, mailing lists and, where appropriate, funding.
An appropriate output from the group is produced. Currently, this is typically a draft white paper or a wiki page.
When the Working Group is in agreement, the chair shares the outputs with the wider REFEDS community with an open period for discussion and comment. This is typically a period of 4 weeks, but may be longer if appropriate.
After this period of time, the REFEDS Steering Committee signs off on the work item. Work is either written up as a formal white paper, left on the wiki but promoted as finished work or occasionally submitted as an Internet Draft.

Work Items

Ideas for work items for the group:

Minimal assurance level profile
Differentiated assurance level profile(s)
- Adopting IGTF BIRCH level of assurance for research use cases
Review and react to Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation as a level-setting exercise before diving in to work on the substantive deliverables
Review and potentially incorporate the MFA Profile defined by the InCommon MFA WG.