Logistics

Mon 23rd September 14:00 - 15:30 CEST
Registration: https://events.geant.org/event/1714/

Intended audience

• GA + CTOs
• Federation operators: we want to make the life easy to them, despite eID coming...

Goal

• positioning of "Distributed Identities" in the context of the T&I activities of GÉANT (organisation, project and community alike)
  • no technical deep-dive
  • focus on things we should be doing next (or continue to do) as a community, but also point out the risk associated by not acting
  • convey the message that this is a mid-2024 snapshot in a fast-moving field

Agenda

• intro T7
• our "expert snapshot risk assessment" including proposed actions
• good examples of next steps

Storyline

• context of T7, strategic positioning
• quick run through the history of our community's T&I activities with a focus on 
  • the foundational use case
  • point out the various "transitions" we had to make and the "gamechanger" associated with each step
  • point out the stability of the foundational use case of transporting organisational, trusted user-related data to services in need of this information
• enter "distributed identities"
  • a brief look into into "what" and "why"
  • what is the "gamechanger" in this "transition" - industry-wide, but also specifically for our community
• our "expert snapshot assessment" of the current situation
  • (technical) readiness of "distributed identities", also in comparison to the readiness of our (inter-)federation and identity services
  • "transition" risks: our mid-2024 snapshot risk map
  • risks associated with non-acting ("non-transitioning"): including the "political agenda" (pushing mobility, alliances and eID)
  • proposed actions:
    • protect our investment: recognise and protect our stable, globally scaled T&I services from rushing into low-readiness services
    • monitoring: monitoring the "distributed identity" activities and assess the relevance for our community
    • engagement: engage in relevant industry standardisation processes and trialling activities (e.g. DC4EU)
    • communicate: 
• feature good examples of current engagements:
  • DC4EU, Stefan (use case for education)
  • OID federation, Davide
• Potential for our community 
  • GEANT, MyAcademicID, Christos
  • Research use cases, Niels
• Discussion: 15-20min
• short wrap-up and outlook:
  • report to sum up nicely all above to come
  • input for CTO-meetings and more (spring 2025 , maybe F2F, co-located/grouped thematically?)
  • DI in GN5-2 WP5 T6
• Feedback:
  • during meeting with menti
  • survey to populate afterwards
  • follow-ups?

Actions:

• Marina: interact with get feedback from Davide, Stefan, Niels and Christos
• CG: First version of intro slides
• at next meeting:
  • discussion on Menti-Feedback
  • survey, including questions about follow-up activities
  • CG: Events page, agenda and intro