Technical StatisticsWhat they tell us, and what they don’t

Ian A. Young, SDSS London, 17th Jan 2008

Sources

• Federation web site logs

• Metadata download logs

• WAYF access logs

• Membership statistics

• Metadata statistics

2

Federation Web Site

500

1,000

1,500

2,000

2,500

3,000Fe

b07

Mar

07

Apr

07

May

07

Jun0

7

Jul0

7

Aug

07

Sep0

7

Oct

07

Nov

07

Dec

07

Jan0

8

Pages per day (average)

3

Federation Web Site

• We’re seeing about 1500 page views per day at present: significant use

• That has been pretty stable for 11 months, although federation itself has grown

• Perhaps people use the site when they’re joining, but not afterwards?

4

Membership

Membership alone49%

Gateway5%

IdP + SP15%

Just SP9%

Just IdP22%

5

Data 11-Jan-2007

Membership

• Many members have both IdP and SP entities

• may be for testing or for collaboration

• Half of members have no participation

• Good awareness, bad deployment?

• Planning on gateway use only?

• “Gateway members” beginning to show up

6

Browser Certificates

Other5%

e-Science CA5%

VeriSign8% GlobalSign

12%

Thawte13%

SDSS CA19%

JANET SCS37%

7

Data 12-Jan-2007(ignoring failures)

Browser Certificates

(failed)25%

Other4%

e-Science CA4%

VeriSign6%

GlobalSign9%

Thawte10%

SDSS CA15%

JANET SCS28%

8

Data 12-Jan-2007(including failures)

IdP Trust Certificates

e-Science CA3%

SDSS CA7%

VeriSign7%

Thawte13%

GlobalSign25%

JANET SCS46%

9

Data 12-Jan-2007(ignoring failures)

IdP Trust Certificates

(failed)18%

(broken)4%

e-Science CA3%

VeriSign5%

SDSS CA5%

Thawte10% GlobalSign

19%

JANET SCS36%

10

Data 12-Jan-2007(including failures)

Certificates

• JANET SCS being widely used

• Significant number of entities offline

• Small number of IdPs “just broken”

• No way to survey SP trust certificates

Software

Other4%

Shibboleth96%

12

Data 12-Jan-2007

Software

• Shibboleth dominates

• Almost all 1.3: only 3×1.2, 2×2.0

• If other software supported large scale federation, more people might use it.

• Need to determine how much to let technical holes in other software hold us back

Questions?