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[Terry Smith <t.smith AT aaf.edu.au>]

All,

As eduGAIN Chair, I present to you the application of:

• Kyrgyz Republic / KIF - KRENA Identity Federation
  

who has Signed the eduGAIN Declaration, has a policy based on the federation 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 and has been a flywheel in the Central Asian project CAREN which started in 2009 supporting the Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan R&E Community. You might have seen Zak’s 2011 Lightning Talk at TNC and he has been a driver of this work in the region (eduroam and identity federation) and it is hoped this will start the other CAREN members along this path.

So I ask the following federations to specifically review the submission by Kyrgyz Republic / KIF - KRENA Identity Federation:

• United Kingdom / UK Federation
•  Albania / RASH
•  Algeria / ARNaai
•  Argentina/MATE
•  Armenia/AFIRE

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 KIF team (Zarlyk "Zak" + Kadyrkul) that are subscribed to this mailing list.  

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

Thanks,

Terry. 

Terry Smith

eduGAIN Steering Group Chair 

Australian Access Federation

M: +61414692424

E: t.smith AT aaf.edu.au