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[Wolfgang Pempe <pempe AT dfn.de>]

Hi,

Am 03.07.2015 um 10:12 schrieb Nicole Harris:
> Hi Niels
>
> Whoever is the registration authority for that metadata is assumed to be
> the registrar for the R&S tag - ergo you shouldn't add a tagged service
> to edugain unless you as a federation have added the tag.  I'm not sure
> which CLARIN SP you were looking at but this is quite useful:
> https://technical.edugain.org/entities4.php.  It seems the answer is DFN
> for most of the CLARIN resources at the moment.

just to avoid any misunderstandings: When registering new (e.g. CLARIN) 
entities with our federation (DFN-AAI), we don't care for already 
existing entity attributes. All (CLARIN) SPs have to apply separately 
for the R&S category by checking a checkbox in our metadata admin tool. 
At least from our point of view, the CLARIN SPF is primarily a legal 
construct (Dieter calls it a 'legal proxy') which enables the CLARIN 
ERIC to register project SPs with the relevant federations in place of 
the project partners. For this purpose, the CLARIN ERIC has signed an SP 
agreement with the DFN. We use the CLARIN metadata aggregat(es) only as 
a technical resource for registering their SPs with our federation md 
(already populated mdui elements). It's not (used as) a downstream like 
the eduGAIN metadata.

Best,
Wolfgang

> Hope that helps
>
> N
>
> On 03/07/2015 08:40, Niels van Dijk wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This may sound a bit academic, but who is the R&S 'registrar' in
> > eduGAIN? I know we are all assuming it to be the Federations (at least
> > thats is what I think), but I note there is nothing in either R&S
> > (rightfully so) or in eduGAIN that states this is the case.
> >
> > The reason I ask is that I am now looking at CLARIN Service Provider
> > Federation metadata where they state their SP to be R&S, and I
> > realized there is no agreement in that federation on who is the
> > registrar either.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Niels

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