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- Nature of Declaration: Signing the declaration creates no new legal obligations or rights (section 9), nor is there any financial consideration (section 12). Each federation is signing a one-sided declaration, which is neither a contract nor an agreement.
Constitution
- eduGAIN Governance: eduGAIN is governed by an Executive Committee, which today is the GÉANT Executive Committee and a "Steering Group" comprised of Participating Federations. Each Federation appoints a Delegate and a Deputy.
- Operational Team: eduGAIN Operational Team handles most administrative tasks for eduGAIN.
- Peering: eduGAIN has no direct peering relationships at present, but has contingencies in the constitution to allow them should they exist.
- Approval of Changes: There are multiple levels of approval for important decisions to ensure that changes will not exclude participant federations, either directly or indirectly.
- Entities Registration in eduGAIN: There is no direct registration of entities with eduGAIN and a Participant Federation is responsible for making sure non-eduGAIN entities are not presented to eduGAIN.
- Metadata Registration Practice Statement: Each federation must publish a Metadata Registration Practice Statement prior to exchanging metadata.
- Leaving eduGAIN: Federations must give one (1) month notice prior to leaving eduGAIN; however, there are no constraints on a federation for dropping any given IdP or SP metadata entity from its metadata export. Likewise, there are no constraints on a federation for dropping any given IdP or SP from its import pipeline prior to republishing for its own members.
- eduGAIN Technical Overview: eduGAIN Technical Overview document mentioned in the constitution is currently not published.
- Signing of Declaration: The eduGAIN Operational Team verifies that the signing party on the declaration for a participant federation is authorized to sign on behalf of the federation. For expediency, the Operational Team requests a scanned copy of the signed declaration followed eventually by a paper copy.
- Pre-approval: Certain federations have been pre-approved by the eduGAIN Steering Committee for admittance. InCommon has been pre-approved.
- Required vs Optional Profiles: The only required profile for participant federations at present is the SAML 2.0 Metadata Profile.
Metadata Profile
- Required Elements: not all elements required by the eduGAIN Metadata Profile are currently implemented in InCommon metadata.
- MDS Aggregation Practice Statement: the MDS Aggregation Practice Statement mentioned in this document does not exist yet.
- Filtering metadata during aggregation: eduGAIN aggregation is supposed to be transparent and does not remove or validate metadata elements during aggregation—this is the responsibility of the participant federation that registers the entity into metadata.
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