Questions for SP communities (e.g. research infrastructure projects or individual SP admins). 

The approach could be an interview or a web based survey

How important it is for you that...

Identity concept

• all account belongs to an individual person (i.e. there are no shared accounts like "libraryuser1")?
• and all users are traceable (i.e. the home organization knows and can reach him/her)?
• and Home Organisation is willing to collaborate with you if their user misbehaves?
• that you (as an SP) can block him/her from your services?

• user identifiers are persistent i.e. not reassigned (re-cycled) to another person over time?
• user identifiers are shared by multiple SPs  (i.e. not pairwise/targeted)

Initial proof of identity

• the home organization has a documented identity vetting process (whatever it is)?
• the identity vetting process is face-to-face or equivalent?

On-line authentication

• Are password-based authentication good enough for you?
• Or should passwords have some kind of quality floor? (What kind of quality floor?)
• Do you need two factor authentication? (What kind of?)

Would you like to use step-up authentication as a service?

Step-up authentication means that the user first authenticates with a password, and subsequently with a second factor (such as by an one-time password delivered to his/her cellphone)

• if it costs you money
• if it costs you work (for instance, you need to operate one or several registration authorities where your community's users come to show their photo-ID and you record their cellphone number)

Freshness of user data

• accounts are closed as an individual departs? How promptly?
• eduPersonAffiliation value is updated as an individual departs? How promptly?

Provenance of the identity and authentication

• Is it enough that the Home Organisation self-asserts that they comply with the LoA baseline?
• Plus someone who has some enforcement rights (e.g. Home identity federation can remove “compliant” tag from the Home Organisation)?
• also internal audits needed?
• also external audits needed?

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Additional requirements

Do we think these issues have anything to do with the LoA things?

• attribute population; which attributes the Home Organisation populates for users
• attribute release; which attributes the Home Organisation is willing to release 

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Communitites to target this survey

• EGI (DavidG)
• wLCG (Romain).
• PRACE (Jules Wolfrat)
• HBP