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[Rhys Smith <Rhys.Smith AT jisc.ac.uk>]

I’ve had a quick flick through and have no other comments beyond what’s 
already been brought up. Generally looking good!

Rhys.



> On 18 Oct 2019, at 01:35, Terry Smith <t.smith AT aaf.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> As eduGAIN Chair, I present to you the application of:
> 
>       • People's Republic of China (PRC) / CSTCloud 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 both 
> the APAN, TEIN and GÉANT communities, is supporting the institutions of the 
> Chinese Academy of Sciences via CSTNet and is also the .cn Roaming Operator 
> for eduroam.
> 
> I had the pleasure of meeting Jiangning Chen at APAN48 in Malaysia earlier 
> this year and that meeting reignited the push by CSTNet to connect their 
> federation to eduGAIN.
> 
> I ask the following federations to specifically review the submission by 
> People's Republic of China (PRC) / CSTCloud Federation:
>       • Austria/ACOnet Id Federation
>       • Belarus/FEBAS
>       • Bulgaria/BIF
>       • Belgium/Belnet Federation
>       • Brazil/CAFe
> 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. Eagle eyed readers might notice that the Australia/AAF 
> entry isn't included in this list (and was next in the queue for assessment 
> duties) but as discussed previously I'm opt-ed out of the review process as 
> Chair of the SG.
> 
> 
> 
> If you have any questions please contact the CSTCloud Federation team 
> (Yihua Zheng, Zhijian Xu and Jiangning Chen) who are subscribed to this 
> mailing list. 
> 
> 
> Formal components of the membership process will be via the eduGAIN 
> Steering Group mailing list. 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Terry. 
> 
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