1. Updates Licia Florio, TERENA florio@terena.org REFEDS Meeting 5 Sept 2012

2. REFEDS Goals  Forum for R&E Federations Operators:  To develop best practise to facilitate inter- federations  Following the model: do it once, use it multiple times  Hopefully to offer a place for user-communities to put forward their requirements/complaints

3. REFEDS Map 31 Production Federations 17 Pilot Federations Last update May 2014

4. REFEDS Model REFEDS Workplan Sponsors Manpower BUDGET Steering Committee

5. Current Work On:  Federation Operators Practice Guidelines (FOP)  The guidelines will consist of 4 documents: Key Management Practice Statement (out for comments) Key Management Practice Statement Metadata Registration Practice Statement Monitoring Practice Statement Assurance Practice Statement.  https://refeds.terena.org/index.php/FOP https://refeds.terena.org/index.php/FOP  Entity Categories  First category, Research and Scholarship published in March 2014  https://refeds.terena.org/index.php/Entity_Categor ies https://refeds.terena.org/index.php/Entity_Categor ies

6. GÉANT  EC funded project  Caters mostly for NRENs  Enabling Users has been a BIG step forward to engage with communities  Operates different services:  eduroam in Europe  eduGAIN  others…

7. eduGAIN: Inter-federation Infrastructure  MDS fetches, aggregates and republishes metadata  eduGAIN provides policy framework to build trust

8. eduGAIN Use-Cases  Vast array of use cases.  Wide ranging support for the community.  If you want to know more about eduGAIN look for Brook Schofield

9. AARC Call Slide 9 ›GÉANT preparation is on-going: ›Led heavily by NRENs ›Open Calls and Enabling users help support community use-cases ›Horizon 2020 call on AAI: ›Consortium with both NRENs and e-Researchers ›Good opportunity to work together as a team ›Some of the work will take place in REFEDS but funded ›GÉANT preparation is on-going: ›Led heavily by NRENs ›Open Calls and Enabling users help support community use-cases ›Horizon 2020 call on AAI: ›Consortium with both NRENs and e-Researchers ›Good opportunity to work together as a team ›Some of the work will take place in REFEDS but funded Slide 9 ›Horizon 2020 call on AAI: ›Consortium with both NRENs and e-Researchers ›Good opportunity to work together as a team ›Some of the work will take place in REFEDS but funded ›Main topics: ›LoA, Incident response, training and outreach, attribute authorities ›Horizon 2020 call on AAI: ›Consortium with both NRENs and e-Researchers ›Good opportunity to work together as a team ›Some of the work will take place in REFEDS but funded ›Main topics: ›LoA, Incident response, training and outreach, attribute authorities

10. Who Does What LoA AARC Call Proof of Concepts (Guest IdPs, Attribute providers, etc.;) Incident response Training/Outreach REFEDS GEANT