InCommon Technical Discussions

[Nick Roy <>]

FYI, I plan to vote 'yes' to allow RUNNet-AAI to join eduGAIN. Please
let me know if you have questions about their documentation/etc.

Best Regards,

Nick Roy
Director of Technology and Strategy, InCommon / Internet2 Trust and
Identity Services


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Subject:        Re: [eduGAIN-SG] Russia/RUNNet AAI membership in eduGAIN
Date:   Thu, 12 Apr 2018 03:04:53 -0600
From:   Brook Schofield 
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Reply-To:       Brook Schofield 
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To:     

 
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eduGAIN Delegates (and Deputies),

I have the pleasure to announce that Russia/RUNNet-AAI has progressed
through the assessment of their policy and responded to the feedback by
their peer federations.

the RUNNet-AAI Federation serving the constituency of researchers and
educators in the Russian Federation, has written its policy document
(based on the policy template), metadata registration practice
statement (also inline with the template) is declaring itself as a
production federation is now seeking inclusion in eduGAIN. 

You can review the supplied information which is accessible from the
eduGAIN Technical Status Page:
   https://technical.edugain.org/status.php

These documents have been assessed by your peers and pending issues have
been resolved. I’ve spoken to a range of the assessors and they are
happy with their federation policy and outstanding comments are
regarding as best practice improvements and RUNNet-AAI are assessing these.

And as per section 3 of of the eduGAIN Constitution, I believe that the
application by this federation 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 55 eduGAIN members at this point in time - only 42
members have an active voting right
(see: https://wiki.geant.org/display/eduGAIN/eduGAIN+Votes ).

This will be a vote by simple majority from today (Thursday 12 April
2018) until Friday 27th April 2018.

The vote can end early if 22 votes in the affirmative are received
before the deadline from the 42 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
these federations if/once their status of member is accepted.

-Brook


> On 13 Mar 2018, at 7:00 pm, Brook Schofield 
> <
> <mailto:>>
>  wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I’ve announced the assessment of Russia / RUNNet AAI on the
> 
>  <http://lists.geant.org/> mailing
> list. You can follow the thread at:
>     https://lists.geant.org/sympa/arc/edugain-discuss
>
> or specifically
>  
>   https://lists.geant.org/sympa/arc/edugain-discuss/2018-03/msg00000.html
>
> All eSG members are also on eduGAIN-Discuss (you can unsubscribe from
> -Discuss without affecting your -SG mailing list subscription). You
> can always contact me directly for comments that you want proxied to
> the federation or mailing list.
>
> I’ll follow-up on this thread with regards to the voting and other
> formal components of the membership process.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Brook
> Brook Schofield
> eduGAIN Steering Group Chair
> GÉANT
> M: +31651553991 
> Skype: brookschofield
>