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