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

Hi Guy,

The way I read that, only existing MAEEN members are eligible to join the federation in any role, and existing members all appear to be research, education, and governmental agencies.

That's entirely expected for the identity provider role: typically we want to restrict these to institutions within our communities.

However, the way its written now, you won't allow any outside service provider to join your federation unless they're also eligible to join MAEEN itself as a member. That is unusual for the service provider role: in our federation we have a number of commercial service providers who provide useful services to our institutions, but who would never be eligible to join the NREN or benefit from any of the other services we offer. An eduroam example would be a coffee shop or restaurant providing eduroam to attract customers; a SAML example would be a commercial publisher who wants to use your federation to facilitate access to their service for your member institutions.

Are you expecting such service providers to join the NREN completely? And are they even able to? Or are you deliberately intending to preclude them - maybe you're only intending on using services you learn via eduGAIN?

We have updated the website:

https://www.maeen.sa/services/identity/

"Subscription to the federation is available to MAEEN members, and any organisation or institution that undertakes or supports education, research and development."

So that it is not restricted to only members.

Thanks

Naser

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