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eduGAIN consists of Federations whose primarily target is to provide an authentication and authorisation infrastructure in the interests of service to the research and education sectors. The eduGAIN Service provides an infrastructure for establishing trusted communications between Entities, such
as Identity and Service Providers, in different Federations.eduGAIN is governed by the eduGAIN Steering Group which is composed by all the eduGAIN Members's representatives.
Please refer to the eduGAIN Constituion for further details: https://technical.edugain.org/doc/eduGAIN-Constitution-v3ter-web.pdf
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