Innovation through participation

Expectations on eduGAIN and next steps

Valter Nordh, NORDUnet / GU

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Quick review of eduGAIN service

eduGAIN?

Home Organisation (a Member)

IdP

SPSP

IdP

IdPAPSP

SP

IdP

IdP

IdP

SP

SP

Participant Federation

Participant Federation

Participant Federation

eduGAIN service

Service Provider (a Member)SP

Participant Federation

SP

IdP

Entities

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Quick review of eduGAIN service

eduGAIN is not trying to harmonize the meaning of student or employee all over the globe... Always will be up to each federation/country

An entity can not directly connect to eduGAIN, only through federations.

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eduGAIN policy

Proposed governance structureOverview of the eduGAIN policy

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Proposed governance structure

Mandatory issuesVery long term documents

(policy)

Recommendations and documents changing more frequently

(technical)

Daily issues and very changing documents

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eduGAIN policy main components

Policy Declaration (signed and published by Federation)

eduGAIN Constitution

Metadata profile(Technical document describing the few mandatory requirements for participating in eduGAIN)

(Terms of Use – license to use eduGAIN metadata)

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Data protection

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Data protection

The eduGAIN project has determined that there is no desirable way of centrally assuming responsibility for data protection issues.

“EU data protection law makes IdPs responsible for the personal data they hold/release. You can't make that responsibility go away, you can only move it. And to be sure of moving it you need a legal document. Where do you want to move it to, and do you understand what the responsibility is that you are moving?” – Andrew Cormack

Our recommendation is to leave the responsibility to the participating entities (IdPs and SPs)

The issue is legislation – can not be solved by technology.

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Quick review of eduGAIN service

Service timelines

April 2010: pre-pilot service startedOctober 2010: pilot service started

Today (Feb 2011): 13 federations involved in, out of a possible 19.

January 2011: Exec recommendationFebruary 2011: Introduction to NREN-PC (via e-mail) March 2011: NREN PC decisionApril 2011: production service starts

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Quick review of eduGAIN service

Next steps in eduGAIN?

Home Organisation (a Member)

IdP

SPSP

IdP

IdPAPSP

SP

IdP

IdP

IdP

SP

SP

Participant Federation

Participant Federation

Participant Federation

eduGAIN service

Service Provider (a Member)SP

Participant Federation

SP

IdP

Entities

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Quick review of eduGAIN service

We now (soon) have a policyWe have a MDSWe have technical interfederation

What gives us most value to focus on next?

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– EXEC DISCUSSION

AoB and discussion

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