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[Nick Roy <>]

FYI - please let me know if you have any questions/etc.

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Nick

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Subject:	[eduGAIN-SG] Notification of the update of the eduGAIN Constitution
Date:	Thu, 4 May 2017 10:23:07 +0000
From:	Brook Schofield
Reply-To:	Brook Schofield
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As of last week the GÉANT board ratified a new version of the eduGAIN constitution, following a long and thorough consultation with the community.  The eduGAIN consitution defines how the eduGAIN service is governed and what procedural and technical requirements are mandatory for federations using eduGAIN.  

This constitutional change is the first since 2013 and has been put in place to help eduGAIN grow and support the changing requirements of our community.

For the first time, eduGAIN will not be SAML-specific but will allow mutiple technology profiles to take advantage of a single trust framework.  This means that federations built on technologies such as OpenID Connect (OIDC) will be able to participate in eduGAIN in the future.  

The new constitution also updates the governance model for eduGAIN with the GÉANT Board taking responsibility for eduGAIN governance and defining a robust governance framework for future operations.  

The new constitution will take effect on 1 August 2017, giving federations and federation members a three month notification window.  The changes in this version will not have operational impact on eduGAIN federations and present no new operational requirements, but the GÉANT eduGAIN team will be undertaking a full review of the SAML technology profiles over this three month period to ensure that all SAML operational requirements are fit for purpose.  eduGAIN will also introduce a series of Best Current Practice (BCP) documents in this timeframe to support federations wishing to "step-up" Identity Providers and Service Providers with enhanced features.  

I’ll provide a further update once the documents have been updated at: http://edugain.org/policy

Brook Schofield
GÉANT
M: +31651553991 
Skype: brookschofield

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