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edu. GAIN Training Federation Metadata Management Tools edu. GAIN Training Vienna 17 Oct 2011 Brook Schofield, TERENA Innovation through participation

edu. GAIN Metadata Management Opt’s Goal is to create a SAML metadata file Tip #1: Brook doesn’t understand this space… proceed with caution. Options as I see them: Manual (use an XML editor) Some Automation via Scripts/Version Control Metadata Management Tools – SWITCH Resource Registry – JANUS-SSP – Federation Registry (AAF) Innovation through participation

Types of Federations 4 -Types of Federation Mesh Hub&Spoke/Centralised Aggregate (Kalmar 2, edu. GAIN) have their own tools (MDS) X. 509 (IGTF) Most prominent are: Mesh (27 instances) Hub&Spoke (7 instances either centralised/distributed Tip #2: Stats from the “Proof of Concept” Service Catalogue. Innovation through participation

Known Active Federations (with a logo) Slide 4 Innovation through participation

Those that responded to my survey… Slide 5 Innovation through participation

…hand me the envelope! Question SWITCH RR Fed Reg AAF JANUS-SSP In-House Which Federation? SWITCHaai, Haka, NIIF, Edugate AAF, Tuakiri (NZ), CAFe WAYF, SURFconext Belnet, ACOnet-aai, RENATER, AAI@Edu. HR, SURFfederatie Customisation Lots None Language PHP Groovy PHP XSLT, Perl, PHP Missing Features Dependent on generation of software. edu. GAIN “optin”, MDUI, MD Aggregation *edu. GAIN “opt -in”, MD Aggregation Self-Service, edu. GAIN “optin”, MDUI, MD Aggregate Lots *Process available but requires documentation. NB: - Signing of metadata outside the scope of these tools – solutions exist. Innovation through participation

What is edu. GAIN doing about this? Federation Registry (AAF) Working with the NZ Summer of e. Research Project 2 students for 10 weeks for 40 hours per week (800 total hours) Goal is to implement: – edu. GAIN “opt-in” process for Federation Registry – …and add support for Disco. Juice. JSON Will pave the way for extra-European federations JANUS-SSP (Primarily WAYF) AMRES’ new identity federation utilising JANUS-SSP in mesh arch. Interest from Edugate and others in extending feature set Tip #3 Contact Brook if you can participate in this work. Innovation through participation