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[Василий Порхачёв <porhachev AT runnet.ru>]

Dear all,

 

We had looked through the CARSI documents and metadata.

Some notes:

CARSI: CERNET (China Education and Research NETwork) Authentication and Resource Sharing Infrastructure Identity Federation Policy

·         The name of the Federation uses term “Resource Sharing”. But there’s no definition of it in sec. 1. We think it should be defined.

 

CARSI Identity Federation Metadata Registration Practice Statement

·         “5.2 https-scheme URIs are RECOMMENDED to all members.” – shouldn’t we insist on https schema?

·         There’s 4) Metadata Format – but not a single line with mdrpi:RegistrationPolicy in the metadata https://www.carsi.edu.cn/carsimetadata/carsifed-metadata.xml
and only one line with registrationAuthority and that about Elseiver with UK federation as Registrar.

 CARSI Attribute Profile

·         We remember the discussion on attribute eduPersonAffiliation and there was a decision of SG to eliminate some values from the CARSI list

CARSI Service Provider Management Standard

·         “3g [Metadata Accuracy] The Service Provider Organization MUST provide accurate metadata to CARSI Identity Federation, and agrees to notify CARSI Federation as soon as possible when the metadata changes.”
Notify – that’s not enough as this SP entity should deleted from the federation metadata by operator asap.

KR

Vasiliy Porhachev, Ilya Vasilyev
RUNNetAAI

 

 

 

From: edugain-discuss-request AT lists.geant.org [mailto:edugain-discuss-request AT lists.geant.org] On Behalf Of Brook Schofield
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:55 AM
To: edugain-discuss AT lists.geant.org
Cc: gaoyan; CHEN PING
Subject: [eduGAIN-discuss] Assessment of China / CARSI for eduGAIN membership

 

All,

I present to you the application of China / CARSI who has signed the eduGAIN Declaration, has a policy based on the policy template, is self declaring their federation as a production service and is wanting to join the global R&E federated environment.

You can find more detailed information about the federation under "eduGAIN Candidates” at
    https://technical.edugain.org/status.php
which contains links to their policy and MRPS.

 

Directly available from: https://www.carsi.edu.cn/join_en.htm

 * Policy: https://www.carsi.edu.cn/docs/identity_federation_policy_en.pdf

 * MRPS: https://www.carsi.edu.cn/docs/CARSI-MRPS-en-20181224.pdf

This application is from an organisation that is closely aligned with the GÉANT community via their participation in the Asi@Connect project and has been a long supporter of TF-IAM activities within APAN to support their participation in eduGAIN.

 

So I ask the following federations to specifically review the submission by CARSI:

 * Norway / FEIDE

 * Oman / KID

 * Poland / PIONIER.Id

 * Portugal / RCTSaai

 * Russia / RUNNet AAI

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 CARSI team 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.

 

Brook Schofield
eduGAIN Steering Group Chair
GÉANT

M: +31651553991 
Skype: brookschofield