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

> On 3 Jul 2015, at 09:49, Niels van Dijk <niels.vandijk AT surfnet.nl> wrote:
> 
> Could we imagine eduGAIN itself being the registrar?

This would be a significant change to the model; I'm skeptical.

> E.g. when an ERIC directly joins eduGAIN?

I'd choose to interpret that question differently than proposing a case where 
eduGAIN was the registrar.

If the CLARIN federation was run along similar lines to the way we expect 
other eduGAIN participant federations to be run (in terms of policies, 
procedures, metadata handling and the like) then I don't think there would be 
any problem in principle with the CLARIN ERIC joining eduGAIN. As Tom says, 
that would involve them providing and following a MDRPS, a signed feed, etc.

> What if it starts asserting R&S on its own SPs?

If CLARIN became a participating federation, with all the burdens that 
implies, they would of course be able to go through the same process as the 
rest of us do when validating an entity as a member of the R&S category and 
label it as such.

    -- Ian

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