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[Nick Roy <nroy AT internet2.edu>]

Thanks Brook, and hello to Suhaimi and Muhammad,

In general the SIFULAN materials look excellent. Just a couple 
questions/nits that I could find.

MRPS:

5.1 Entity Registration and 5.2 EntityID Format

- mentions use of domain names in entityIDs, and discusses use of 
approval letters for specific cases. Mentions URNs as acceptable form 
for an entityID, but does not explicitly discuss a registered URN 
namespace or requirement for use of a domain name (presumably subject to 
the same domain validation checks) in an URN.

5.3 Entity Validation

- does not mention a process for verifying domain names in the 
shibmd:scope element of IdP metadata.


Join page (https://sifulan.my/join.php):

- Typo: s/Higherer/Higher/g
- Nit: s/Individual Users whom their organization is not 
participant/Users whose home organization is not a participant/g

Best regards,

Nick Roy
Director of Technology and Strategy
InCommon / Internet2 Trust and Identity Services

On 5/25/18 7:23 AM, Brook Schofield wrote:
> All,
> 
> I present to you the application of: Malaysia / SIFULAN
> 
> 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 
> https://sifulan.my but for completeness you can find them here:
>   * Policy linked from https://sifulan.my/join.php (while titled DRAFT 
> it will be revised/approved as a result of this assessment).
>   * MRPS https://sifulan.my/download/SIFULAN-MRPS-v1.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 the Malaysian academic community.
> 
> So I ask the following federations to specifically review the submission 
> by SIFULAN:
>   * Ukraine / PEANO
>   * United States / InCommon
>   * United Kingdom / UK Federation
>   * Algeria / ARNaai
>   * Argentina / MATE
> 
> 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 SIFULAN team (Suhaimi and 
> Muhammad Farhan) 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
> M: +31651553991
> Skype: brookschofield
>