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[Tom Scavo <trscavo AT internet2.edu>]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Niels van Dijk <niels.vandijk AT surfnet.nl> 
wrote:
>
> Could we imagine eduGAIN itself being the registrar?

I can't imagine this, no.

If eduGAIN itself publishes metadata, and it does so according to its
own policies and procedures, then eduGAIN itself will have to do at
least the following:

1) assign itself a registrar ID
2) publish a Metadata Registration Practice Statement
3) publish a link to its export aggregate

and so forth. In other words, eduGAIN itself would become a
federation, which seems to me to be a potential conflict of interest.
In particular, how will eduGAIN itself be able to sign the eduGAIN
participation agreement? How could that possibly have any meaning?

Tom