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

2. Agenda  Review the progresses  Overview of the budget  Next Meetings

3. What Have We Achieved?  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_Categories https://refeds.terena.org/index.php/Entity_Categories

4. What Have We Achieved?  Federation Operators Group (FOG)  Closed mailing list Information can be used, but neither the identity, nor the affiliation of the source should be disclosed. New members have to be endorsed by two existing members  To facilitate open discussion about operational issues  Metadata Explorer Tool (MET)  http:// met.refeds.org/met  Improved version, but it could do more  REEP  A pilot service to enable simple registration of entity metadata in a central source  Software improved  Listen to Leif’s talk

5. Other Results by 2014  SCHAC Schema  TERENA to fund the initial revamp of SCHAC Later SCHAC will be migrated under REFEDS  Editorial board to be appointed soon  Results expected by fall 2014  International Code of Conduct  Work started last year  Plans are to co-found more work via GEANT in 2015  Similar model used for the EU Code of Conduct  Workplan 2014 online?  https://refeds.org/work/

6. REFEDS RFCs  REFEDS Docs Published as RFCs  in 2013 it was decided to publish some REFEDS docs as RFCs Pros: More weight to the docs Cons: More overhead  RFC main stream vs RFC independent stream  Decided to use independent stream with REFEDS header  Long process  Meanwhile REFEDS docs should follow the RFC format

7. Governance

8. Renewed Steering Committee  Current SC Members:  Andrew Cormack (JANET(UK)  Miro Milinovic (SRCE)  Mehdi Hached (RENATER)  Thomas Lenggenhager (SWITCH)  Valter Nordh (NORDUNET)  Ken Klingenstein (Internet2)  SC to be renewed end 2015 SC Role:  To Oversee the execution of the workplan  To Offer recommendation for new ideas/project  See also REFEDS TermsREFEDS Terms SC Role:  To Oversee the execution of the workplan  To Offer recommendation for new ideas/project  See also REFEDS TermsREFEDS Terms

9. Budget

10. Sponsors  Sponsors for 2013:  Australian Access Federation, CESNET, GARR, Internet Society, Internet2, JISC/Janet, NORDUnet, SURFnet, SWITCH  Sponsors for 2014:  Australian Access Federation, Canarie, GARR, Internet Society, Internet2, JISC/Janet, NORDUnet, SURFnet, SWITCH

11. Budget  Budget required for workplan 2014: ±120K  Budget available: ??  ±45K left over from 2013  Invoice sent late due to overload in TERENA  BUT still waiting for answers  Volunteers to work on REFEDS work items are welcome!

12. Other Funding Revenues  EC-funding only available 2015!  Less control on the process  Needs to fit EC projects framework REFEDS SPONSORS GEANT4 Horizon2020 BUDGET

13. Big Picture Policy Pilot Services Operational Practises Support for R&E communities REFEDS Best Practises LoA Training on policies EINFRA Call Outreach Proof of Concepts Supporting Tools Guest IdPs Federation Harmonisation Services eduGAIN Moonshot GÉANT Enabling Users Research Work eduroam Identity Harmonisation

14. Next Meetings

15. REFEDS Meetings 2014/2015  REFEDS @I2 Identity Week  Oct 26  REFEDS meeting towards the end of 2014?  Focused on the 2015 workplan  REFEDS@ APAN 2015?  TBC

16. Questions  Please refer to FAQ:  https://refeds.org/faq.html https://refeds.org/faq.html  Look at the REFEDS wiki and blog:  refeds.terena.org  https://blog.refeds.org/