InCommon Technical Discussions

[Nick Roy <>]

FYI

InCommon was one of the first 'yes' votes.

Best regards,

Nick

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Subject:	Re: [eduGAIN-SG] Welcome Singapore/SGAF to eduGAIN (Was: Vote/Assessment of eduGAIN membership of Singapore/SGAF)
Date:	Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:32:53 +0000
From:	Brook Schofield
Reply-To:	Brook Schofield
To:
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All,

I'm pleased to announce that the 49th member of eduGAIN is SGAF.

 

The voting period remains open until Friday 30th June 2017 but Singapore/SGAF has reached the necessary 23 votes:

    https://foodl.org/foodle/eduGAIN-SG-Vote-15-June-2017-59427

The summary is:

 * 27 votes cast in total (4 vote abstain)

 * 23 votes cast in the affirmative 

I’ll provide a further update once voting is closed and update the voting status on the wiki.

I'll instruct the OT to make the necessary arrangements to update the status page http://www.edugain.org/technical/status.php and liaise with SGAF on supporting their participation in eduGAIN.

Additionally Simon and Shen are subscribed to this list, so welcome!

-Brook

On 27 Jun 2017, at 6:24 pm, Brook Schofield <> wrote:

All,

just a reminder that this voting process is still proceeding and you have until Friday morning (Amsterdam time).

For the vote to conclude before that time we’d need:

 * 14 more positive votes, or

 * 22 negative votes (but we haven’t heard any issues with SGAF’s application)

If the vote was to conclude now (which it isn’t) the voting situation in the future would be:

 * Four (4) federations (COLFIRE, MATE, Tuakiri, Oman KID) would continue to be excluded from voting (they can correct this by voting “I abstain”)

 * Nine (9) federations (Belnet, Haka, Grena, DFN-AAI, GRNET, LITNET FEID, RCTSaai, SIR, FEBAS) would be added to the excluded list (they can avoid this by voting - or doing as eduID.lu did by choosing “I abstain” or voting in the affirmative as MINGA did).

 * SGAF would join eduGAIN bringing the membership count to 49.

 * The active voting list would be reduced to 36 members.

I’ll send a final summary on Friday morning and update the voting page.

Thanks,

-Brook 

On 15 Jun 2017, at 3:05 pm, Brook Schofield <> wrote:

eduGAIN Delegates (and Deputies),

I have the pleasure to announce that the Singapore Access Federation (SGAF) https://www.singaren.net.sg/SGAF.php serving the constituency of Republic of Singapore research and education community, has written its policy document, metadata registration practice statement and is declaring itself as a production federation is now seeking inclusion in eduGAIN. These documents have been assessed by your peers and all pending issues have been resolved. You can review the supplied information which is accessible from the eduGAIN Technical Status Page:

   https://technical.edugain.org/status.php

And as per section 3 of of the eduGAIN Constitution, I believe that the SGAF application meets all of the mandatory requirements for eduGAIN membership and as such now provide that information to the membership of eduGAIN to seek your confirmation via this vote:

(redacted)

While there are 48 eduGAIN members at this point in time - only 44 members have an active voting right (see:

   https://wiki.edugain.org/EduGAIN_Votes ). 

This will be a vote by simple majority from today (Thursday 15th June 2017) until Friday 30th June 2017. 

The vote can end early if 23 votes in the affirmative are received before the deadline from the 44 active voting members. Otherwise more positive than negative votes are required by the deadline. Note that only one (1) vote is accepted from an eduGAIN participant and the delegate/deputy should determine who votes on behalf of their federation.

Votes cast by members that have been excluded from voting will restore their voting rights for future voting occasions but will not affect the outcome of this vote.

I'll provide an update on the progress of voting (and a reminder) in one (1) week from today.

The OT is responisible for validating and accepting the metadata of SGAF if/once their status of member is accepted. 

I hope you join me in welcoming the Singapore Access Federation (SGAF) to eduGAIN.

-Brook

Brook Schofield

Project Development Officer

GÉANT 
M: +31651553991 
Skype: brookschofield

 

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On 26 May 2017, at 4:52 pm, Brook Schofield <> wrote:

All,

I present to you the application of:
 * Singapore/SGAF

who has Signed the eduGAIN Declaration, has a policy based on input from various federations but diverges from the policy framework, is self declaring their federation as a production service and is working within the framework of the Identity and Access Management task force of APAN (TF-IAM) in the development of their federation.

 

You can find more detailed information about the federation under "eduGAIN Candidates" at https://technical.edugain.org/status.php
While the MRPS is not reflected in their candidate entry the SGAF Metadata information, MRPS and Web SSO tech profile can be found at https://www.singaren.net.sg/SGAF-metadata.php. 

This application is from an organisation that is closely aligned with the APAN and TEIN communities in the Asia Pacific region and is also well known to the GÉANT community.

To provide guidance on your assessment I’ve performed a summary (attached) of their policy (available on the SGAF website https://www.singaren.net.sg/SGAF.php ) and addresses all of the key areas required of the policy template. 

So I ask the following federations to specifically review the submission by SGAF:

 * Belgium/Belnet Federation

 * Brazil/CaFe

 * Canada/Canadian Access Federation

 * Chile/COFRe

 * Colombia/ColFIRE

All eduGAIN members can (and should) provide feedback on this.

If you have any questions please contact Simon and Shen (in cc but not yet part of this mailing list). 

My intention is to call a vote to accept Singapore/SGAF as a member after I’ve received confirmation from at least 3 of the specific federations that this policy is inline with their expectations. An electronic vote will then be called in this same email thread.

Thanks,

Brook Schofield
eduGAIN Steering Committee Chair
GÉANT

M: +31651553991 
Skype: brookschofield

Brook Schofield

Project Development Officer

GÉANT 
M: +31651553991 
Skype: brookschofield

 

Networks • Services • People 

GÉANT is the collective trading name of the GÉANT Association and GEANT Limited. Learn more at www.geant.org​
​
GÉANT Vereniging (Association) is registered in the Netherlands with the Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam. Registration number: 40535155. Registered office: Singel 468 D, Amsterdam 1017 AW, The Netherlands
GEANT Limited is registered in England & Wales. Registration number: 2806796. Registered office: City House, 126-130 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1PQ, UK.

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