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["Naser A. Almesad" <nalmesad AT maeen.sa>]

Hello All,

Thank you all for you fast response, review and comments, we will take all your comments in consideration and start Fix/Update as needed, and will update you ASAP, in couple of days.

Thanks

Naser

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From: "Muhammad Farhan SJAUGI" <farhan AT perdanauniversity.edu.my>
To: "brook schofield" <brook.schofield AT geant.org>
Cc: edugain-discuss AT lists.geant.org, "nalmesad" <nalmesad AT maeen.sa>, "Mohamad M. Al-Ghamdi" <malghamdi AT maeen.sa>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2019 2:21:08 AM
Subject: Re: [eduGAIN-discuss] Assessment of Saudi Arabia / Maeen Identity Federation for eduGAIN membership

Hi All,

My general impression of this assessment is the candidate is not ready to be assessed as majority of the assessment parameters (e.g. technical profiles, metadata feed, existing federation members, etc.) are not available. I am afraid this could make the assessment process difficult and longer. If a vote were happening now, I would simply vote for deny/reject.

Anyway, below is my evaluation:

1. Website

There are not much information specifically about identity federation service beside the general definition and benefit. No information about how an organization could be part of maeen federation also no information about the technical aspect  and policy documents in order to be connected with the maeen federation (e.g. federation metadata url, signing key, recommended attributes, federation policies, etc.). Also, I agree Rhys, what incommon has to do with maeen federation? and the statement "Maeen will be federated with the following services" (including incommon), does it means Maeen would like to have an exclusive connection with InCommon?

2. Federation Policy

Generally, it just follow REFEDS template which is good. However, some points in the policy need to be further elaborate as specified by Rhys and Ghalse.

3. MRPS

Generally, it just follow REFEDS template too which is good. However, some points in the policy need to be further elaborate as specified by Rhys and Ghalse, also need to be cross-checked when the actual federation metadata is up.

Regards

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Muhammad Farhan SJAUGI, S.Kom. M.Sc. 

Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing - Centre for Bioinformatics | School of Data Sciences 

Perdana University | Block D1, MAEPS Building, MARDI Complex, Jalan MAEPS Perdana, Serdang 43400, Selangor D.E. Malaysia

Tel: (60) 3-89418646 (ext: 384) GMT+8h | Fax: (60) 3-89417661 | Email: farhan AT perdanauniversity.edu.my

Homepage: http://puws.perdanauniversity.edu.my/muhammad-farhan-sjaugi/  

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 10:39 PM Brook Schofield <brook.schofield AT geant.org> wrote:

All,

I present to you the application of Saudi Arabia / Maeen Identity Federation 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.

This application is from an organisation that is closely aligned with the GÉANT community via their participation in the ASREN community.

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

 * Singapore / SGAF

 * Slovenia / ARNES-AAI

 * South Africa/SAFIRE

 * Spain / SIR

 * Sweden / SWAMID

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 Maeen Identity Federation 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

Brook Schofield
eduGAIN Steering Group Chair
GÉANT

M: +31651553991 
Skype: brookschofield

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