{{{ -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: CLARIN Use-case VC Notes Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:06:35 +0100 From: Lukas Hämmerle Organization: SWITCH To: Timo Mustonen , Martin Matthiesen , Sami Silén CC: Dieter Van Uytvanck , Jozef Mišutka , Wolfgang Pempe 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Video Conference ================ Date: 26. April 2016 Time: 9.00 - 10.05 CEST Location: Agenda ------ 1. Status updates on work packages 2. CLARIN-specific entity category Attendees ========= * Lukas Hämmerle, GÉANT * Wolfgang Pempe, GÉANT * Martin Matthiesen, CLARIN Excused ---------- * Sami Silen, GÉANT 1. Status updates on work packages ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 =========== * Lukas will contact Martin to schedule a follow-up meeting mid August. Actions ======= * Lukas will announce instructions -- SWITCH Lukas Hämmerle, Central Solutions GÉANT Project Task Leader "Enabling Users" Werdstrasse 2, P.O. Box, 8021 Zurich, Switzerland phone +41 44 268 15 05, direct +41 44 268 15 64 lukas.haemmerle@switch.ch, http://www.switch.ch }}}