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The Policy Development Kit (PDK) version 2 identifies five main target audiences, functionally following the AARC BPA 2025 hierarchy and identifying (1) ‘Research

1. 'Research governance’ as a foundational area.

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2. ‘Users’ are (human) end-users who participate in a collaboration, are identified via

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2. ‘identity’, i.e. external identity providers and the identity layer of the BPA, to be granted access by

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2. ‘collaboration management’, to

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2. ‘infrastructure integration and service providers’; in the BPA the infrastructure integration components, site-local integration components, and the actual service providers.

Policies in PDK version 2 are standards to which adherence can be asserted and that can be assessed and validated – for example as trust marks – and that are endorsed by AEGIS and considered ‘standards track’. Policies also are endorsed by the organisation at the appropriate level of management, and express a commitment of adherence by the organisation’s management. These are indicated in a roman font in the graphic below.

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The processes and procedures, being templates, are reference implementations where we assume these to be specialised for specific deployments. In the diagram these are indicated in italics.

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The semi-opaque elements are relevant, but fall outside of the scope of the PDK, which targets the authentication and authorisation infrastructure. But even if, for example. identifying the 'why and what' of your research collaboration (your 'primary assets') may not be AAI per-se (and hence greyed-out), it is very useful to know that before embarking on your AAI journey!

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