Trust and Identity Program Advisory Committee - February 8, 2021
Attending: Brad Christ, Mark Johnson, Marc Wallman, Kevin Morooney, Klaas Wierenga, Steve Zoppi, Ann West, Laura Paglione, Dean Woodbeck
Transitioning to bi-monthly meetings
OpenRoaming, eduroam Discussion
There was a general discussion about eduroam, OpenRoaming, and 5G, and their relationship to the eduroam service.
Klaas provided some information about OpenRoaming and eduroam.
- There are few campus-based universities in Europe - that may help drive the interest in OpenRoaming and 5G
- Cellular data fees are quite a bit lower in western Europe than in the US, which is killing the eduroam business case
OpenRoaming
- More hotspots - superset of eduroam - dramatically increasing hotspots
- If it takes off, what is the future for eduroam?
- Strategic choice - try to influence or be confronted with unfortunate outcomes
Observations
- IdP - user base, RADIUS infrastructure - is very valuable to OpenRoaming and us
- SP - of little value to OpenRoaming - onboarding an eduroam hotspot is more complicated than just joining OpenRoaming with the vendor’s own tooling
IdPs
- We don’t control the IdPs
- Need to keep friction at a minimum or we lose them
5G Discussion
Mark Johnson led a discussion about 5G technology
- Relevant in figuring out where LTE fits with networking we typically do on campus
- Responsible for distributed antenna system - one big factor is the look of the antennas
- 5G will require a lot more antennas and a lot of fiber. How will we deal with this? Maybe 100 antennas.
- Many complex pieces; technology, community, commercial carriers