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[Ian Young <ian AT iay.org.uk>]

> On 3 Jul 2015, at 10:03, Tom Scavo <trscavo AT internet2.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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.

Agreed. It's not a trivial undertaking.

> In particular, how will eduGAIN itself be able to sign the eduGAIN
> participation agreement? How could that possibly have any meaning?

It's a declaration, not an agreement, so that's actually less of a problem. 
Who would be making the declaration would be more of a problem, as eduGAIN 
doesn't itself have legal personality as things stand.

    -- Ian

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