APAN IAM Task Force - Update
Terry Smith – Task Force Chair
Why a Task force
 Collaboration of interested folk tasked with achieving a
particular outcome
 Over a specific period (2 years)
 Participation is open to all interested parties
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Expertise
Enthusiasm
Resources
or other benefits
 Anyone can participate including industry
 Modelled on task forces in groups such as TERENA
Why the IAM Task force
 Discussions at APAN38 and before
 Asia-Pacific region has a low uptake of national federations
 Australian, Japan, New Zealand and others
 Have deployed federations
 Willing to share knowledge, expertise, technology, etc
 Countries at all stages of federation
 Not of the radar … Full production
 Reduce the effort bring federations to all
 Don’t reinvent wheels
Task force Goals
1. National identify federation
2. Join eduGAIN
3. Deploy eduroam
WP0 - Discovery
Which countries
• Current activities
• Size and make of R&E
sectors
• Potential governance
Capacity to Operate
• NREN status
Early adaptors
Registry of Nations is currently being populated with basic information
WP1 – APAN Member Services
 APAN and TEIN*CC web sites to be federated
 Memorandum of Understanding
 Promotion
 Collaboration and sharing
WP2 – Federation Development
Assisting countries getting started
 What is federation all about, basic information, benefits, costs, etc…
 Value Statement (REFEDS developing)
 Establishing a Policy development group (REFEDS Policy templates)
 Technical profiles
 Operator practice statement development
WP3 – eduroam
AARNet + TIEN*CC (Separate but related project)
 5 Nations to be selected
 AARNet work with each
WP4 – SAML Federation + eduGAIN
Singapore working the AAF – Pilot federation
Indonesia working with Malaysia
Philippians actively deploying a federation
Activities to date
 Task force created
 Registry of Countries created with basic information
populated (Regional Map – coming soon)
 A collection point for federation collateral has been created
 APAN39 Task force meeting - Japan
 Update from participants
 MoU
 Discussions about the activities of the task force
Funding
Mapping the Program of work to various funding
possibilities…
TEIN 4 and 5 funding options
 TEIN 4 – short term (1 year)
 TEIN 5 – longer term (2 to 5 years)
For TEIN beneficiaries, but outcomes could flow onto others, Pacific
region for instance.
Other funding options…
Awareness !
Those with established federations – eager to help
Those who know about federations – are keen to get them
Those who don’t know ?
Participating
 Mailing list [email protected]
 To Subscriber: https://master.apan.net/mailman/listinfo/tf-iam
 TF Space on the APAN Web site (Coming soon)