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[Leif Johansson <leifj AT sunet.se>]

> It doesn't answer the question "how do I define what an academic
> organiation is".  I'm not sure this is solvable, although it is
> interesting. 

I still think it may be worth taking a stab at. Incidentally me and Ian
had a similar problem a few months back where we sorta needed a tag for
"national library" - probably much easier to draw a line around that.

Here are some possible definitions we could build an EC for:

(Wikipedia) Academic institution is an educational institution dedicated
to education and research, which grants academic degrees.

Extending that a bit to include post-graduate institutes etc we could
talk about the following straw-man:

The "academic" entity category may be applied to Identity Providers
that represent institutions which conduct graduate or post-graduate
research and education. This includes universities, university
colleges, research institutes and labs.

Let the beatings begin!

        Cheers Leif