Trust and Identity Program Advisory Group Meeting - July 13, 2020
Minutes
Attending: Mark Johnson, Brad Christ, Klaas Wierenga, Ted Hanss, Tom Jordan, Laura Paglione, Kevin Morooney, Steve Zoppi, Dean Woodbeck, Ann West
OpenRoaming and eduroam
- Kevin reviewed that we’ve created an eduroam Advisory Committee and they’ve started to look at OpenRoaming
- Comes out of a desire for guest access for enterprises
- Cisco has built an eduroam-like service for enterprises
- SSID issue - won’t get enterprises to drop their own SSID or add an OpenRoaming SSID.
- PassPoint also exists, providing a richer communication path between the owner of the hot spot and the user
- GEANT started talking with OpenRoaming people about two years ago.
- About six months ago, decided to make OpenRoaming as open as you get in the wireless broadband alliance (not a standards body but an industry body). Most suppliers are there.
- Problem with eduroam - limited footprint. With 5G and free roaming in Europe, have to compete with an infrastructure that is present everywhere - it costs, but it is everywhere.
- There are some advantages to eduroam - being on campus networks.
Issues
- The model is set up for commercial wifi providers - a lot of attention to billing/payment, captive portals intended to monetize information
- Can make sure the eduroam users aren’t affected by these things, but could be guilt by association
- End user wouldn’t have the eduroam experience any longer - wouldn’t see the eduroam SSID any longer
Is there a risk that we either get onboard with OpenRoaming or get left behind? Cellular service is incredibly competitive in Europe, which is resulting in a race to the bottom. Also there much less eduroam use on phones than on laptops - so a risk to lose market share.
Are there dates we need to be aware of, in terms of decisions? Klaas - doing a trial with the city of Amsterdam to enable wireless in all of the public buildings (including university buildings) in the city.
Community engagement given TechEx cancellation
- InC Steering met last Monday and had a conversation about aspects of convening communities
- I2 is still determining its approach as a result of cancelling in-person TechEx
- T/I is organizing content in parallel to what I2 may do.
- ACAMP is key to what we want to do
- TNC was cancelled, which includes many of the ACAMP-type activities
- Concerned that going another year without F2F will damage momentum
- Incurring a lot of social debt
- Pretty closely knit community, should be ok, but people new to the field and community will struggle because they aren’t meeting people in person