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The first AARC Policy Development Kit, released in 2017, comprised a set of nine reference documents (mostly templates) addressing the construction and operation of community AAIs in the original AARC "2019" Blueprint Architecture, based on the Community First Approach. A mix of policies and procedures, its primary audience was primarily larger-scale research collaborations, expected to review, augment, and specialise the templates for their own use. With the policy development kit being created prior to or in parallel to other work in the community at large, it duplicated some aspects (privacy in REFEDS DPCoCo, or incident response work parallel to the eduGAIN Security Handbook), while being overly complex for smaller collaborations. Work by the Australian Access Federation, the AARC Community, and in REFEDS, WISE, IGTF, and the e-Infrastructures helped restructure the PDK into the v2 model presented above.
An analysis of the improvements required on PDK v1 is included in the informational document AARC-I082 "Trust framework for proxies and Snctfi research services" (doi:10.5281/zenodo.15506826)
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