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[Brook Schofield <brook.schofield AT geant.org>]

All,

I'm pleased to welcome Russia/RUNNet-AAI as the 56th member of eduGAIN.

While this email thread has been quiet for awhile - the voting for Russia/RUNNet-AAI to join eduGAIN has been underway on the Steering Group mailing list.

The Operational Team will soon make the necessary arrangements to update the technical website and ingest the RUNNet-AAI metadata.

Thanks to all that worked on this and especially for RUNNet-AAI for their desire to be a member of eduGAIN.

-Brook

On 13 Mar 2018, at 6:59 pm, Brook Schofield <brook.schofield AT geant.org> wrote:

All,

I present to you the application of:

 * Russia/RUNNET-AAI

who has Signed the eduGAIN Declaration, has a policy based on the federation policy template that covers all the prescribed areas, is self declaring their federation as a production service and is wanting to join the global R&E federated environment. 

Since the policy and MRPS so closely aligns with the REFEDS templates https://wiki.refeds.org/display/FBP/ I’ve decided to forgo the summary document.

You can find more detailed information about the federation under "eduGAIN Candidates” at
   https://technical.edugain.org/status.php

their policy and MRPS is linked from their federation page http://www.runnet.ru/en/services-en/runnetaai-en but for completeness you can find them here:

 * Policy http://www.runnet.ru/images/docs/federation/RUNNetAAI_Identity_Federation_Policy_en.pdf

 * MRPS http://www.runnet.ru/images/docs/federation/RUNNetAAI_MRPS_en.pdf

This application is from an organisation that is closely aligned with the GÉANT community and their participation in eduGAIN will further build links to RUNNet and the Russian Academic community.

So I ask the following federations to specifically review the submission by RUNNET AAI:
 * South Africa/SAFIRE

 * Spain / SIR

 * Sweden / SWAMID

 * Switzerland / SWITCHaai

 * Turkey / YETKİM

All eduGAIN members can (and should) provide feedback on this but to share the burden of review around, these five (5) federations have a specific responsibility. 

If you have any questions please contact the RUNNet AAI team (Vasiliy + Ilya) that are subscribed to this mailing list as well as CC’d to this message.

Formal components of the membership process will be via the eduGAIN Steering Group mailing list. 

Thanks,

Brook Schofield
eduGAIN Steering Group Chair
GÉANT

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