Developments in Assurance: Insights from Across the Pond
Wed., Feb. 3, 2016 at noon ET

The InCommon Assurance call on Wednesday. February 3 discussed “Developments in Assurance: Insights from Across the Pond.”  The discussion focused on two papers:

• a Service Aspects of Assurance white paper produced recently by GÉANT and

• Recommendations on Minimal Assurance Level Relevant for Low-risk Research Use Cases produced recently by AARC

Important issues covered in the papers include:

• Baseline assurance profile for IdPs
• SP requirements
• Self assessment tools
• Recommended best practices

One of white paper authors joined us on the call:

• Daniela Pöhn (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre) 
   
• Mikael Linden (CSC -  Finnish IT Center for Science) (unable to join but provided slides)

The host for the call was  Chris Spadanuda, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and Chair of the InCommon Assurance Advisory Committee (AAC).