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Subject: CLARIN Use-case VC Notes
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:06:35 +0100
From: Lukas Hämmerle <lukas.haemmerle@switch.ch>
Organization: SWITCH
To: Timo Mustonen <timo.mustonen@csc.fi>, Martin Matthiesen
<martin.matthiesen@csc.fi>, Sami Silén <Sami.Silen@csc.fi>
CC: Dieter Van Uytvanck <dieter@clarin.eu>, Jozef Mišutka
<misutka@ufal.mff.cuni.cz>, Wolfgang Pempe <pempe@dfn.de>

Hello all

Find below the CLARIN/GEANT VC we had today. This was the last VC in the
context of GN4 year one project. From May 1st on, GÉANT has a new
structure, new goals and new people. Lukas and Wolfgang (together with
many more colleagues) still will be involved (also together with AARC)
in supporting research communities like CLARIN. So, not that much should
change.

Still, as agreed this was kind of the last VC for a while.
Many thanks to all participants who contributed to this work and thanks
to CLARIN for working together with us! I hope that the work of this
collaboration can improve things for CLARIN in the long term. We will
anyway have a follow-up meeting sometime in summer to analyze this more
thoroughly.

Best Regards
Lukas


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Video Conference
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Date: 26. April 2016
Time: 9.00 - 10.05 CEST
Location: <https://connect.sunet.se/enabling-users>

Agenda
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1. Status updates on work packages
2. CLARIN-specific entity category


Attendees
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* Lukas Hämmerle, GÉANT
* Wolfgang Pempe, GÉANT
* Martin Matthiesen, CLARIN


Excused
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* Sami Silen, GÉANT


1. Status updates on work packages
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1. CLARIN eduGAIN Integration
1.A. Dieter reported that CLARIN signed agrement and sent it
back to DFN-AAI. So, it's now mutually signed and the status
quo is now ensured by CLARIN and DFN-AAI.


2.A. Attribute Release Check
Current test version available http://earc.eduid.hu/
Further changes were applied after another round of feedback.
This service will be finished and put in production in the next
GÉANT project starting May 1st.


2.B. CoCo/R&S support for CLARIN's most wanted-IdPs list.
No updated list of organisations/federations with attribute
release issues received from Jozef but composing such a list is
also not easy in general.
Martin reports that in some cases it helped a lot to fix
attribute release issues at an organisation if a professor
(involved in CLARIN) asked his IT departement to release
attributes to SP XYZ because he and his student need access
to it for research/study purposes.
Positive example: Uni Regensburg got attribute release working
within a few hours just last week.
On the other hand, this might not always work (e.g. if a data
protection lawyer is involved who by default just says no, be it
because he needs time to understand the concept or because he
generally dislikes/fears the idea of release attributes).
The strange thing is that the interpretation and considerations
of attribute release vary extremely even in one country like
Germany. Some universities have no problem releasing attributes
on request to services like CLARIN whereas other universities
struggle to do so.

2.C. Improving error messages for SPs
Instructions:
https://confluence.csc.fi/display/HAKA/Shibboleth+SP+attribute+checker
An example SP that is set up like this can be tested here:
https://devsp.funet.fi/secure/
(Use username/password: teppo/testaaja)
Wiki page currently being moved to eduGAIN wiki
https://wiki.edugain.org/How_to_configure_Shibboleth_SP_attribute_checker

Martin tested instructions using an Ansible script (that also
sets the entityID, which is not available as Shibboleth
variable in the error templates). Currently, solution is
deployed on one production CLARIN SP (www.kielipankki.fi).
Solution was announced and presented on CLARIN mailing list,
little feedback received.
Martin also sent the instructions to DARIAH (Peter Gietz,
Martin Haase) that CLARIN intends to collaborate more closely
with.
Wolfgang added the instructions to a test SP in DFN-AAI.
Conclusion: Instructions are sufficiently tested and documented.
Lukas will announce instructions in a few weeks on relevant
mailing lists and get back to Martin.

Sami reported (after the VC) that also updated the page on
the eduGAIN wiki as well as the code of the attribute checker,
which is now on github. He also will remove the initial wiki
page from CSC wiki.

So, this work is for now considered completed but as mentioned
needs to be make known.

2. CLARIN-specific entity category
Wolfgang asked DFN-AAI who has configured entity-category-based
released. FU Berlin probably has configured this already.


Next Meeting
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* Lukas will contact Martin to schedule a follow-up meeting
 mid August.

Actions
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* Lukas will announce instructions



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