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| 2.1 | The comment on the comment (meta comment?) of the GÉANT Board "Describe composition of the OT and profile operators" says: "This has been left purposefully under-specified due to the fluid nature of profile operator undertstanding at the moment. This will be further decsribed in the eduGAIN OP." Insofar, would it hurt to amend section 2.3 accordingly - informing the reader that composition/appointment etc. of the OP is/will be specified in a separate profile/document? | Wolfgang | Add a link to the edugain Operational Profile |
| 1.1 | 1.1: Overview seems identical to | Peter | This makes no substantive difference so a change is not recommended |
| 3 | 3. Membership Nowhere in that document does it state that you have to be a Member Federation in order to become a Participant Federation, AFAICT. At least my understanding was that this is 2-stop process: The first/lower step is becoming a Member Federation. Only Member Federations then may also become Particpant Federations (by adopting Tech Profiles). So maybe change its defintion like this (having added "are Member Federations" that "additionally") in section 3: "Participant Federations [are Member Federations] that [additionally] are actively participating in eduGAIN via the use of a Technology Profile." Alternatively, adding something to 3.3 to that effect would also take care of this, e.g.: 1. The Federation has joined eduGAIN as a Member Federation (renaming all other 3 items +1) Or maybe simply by changing the first sentence in 3.3 by prefixing it with "For a Member Federation", so that it becomes: "[For a Member Federation] the process to become a Participant Federation in a Technology Profile is as follows:" | Peter | This is defined in the definitions - no change recommended. |
| 3.6 | 3.6: Suspension This section only talks about Participant Federations, even when it's about policy issues. Does that mean that only Participant Federations can be suspended or disqualified? I.e., Member Federations cannot do anything that would change their member status? Either way, the following sentence is a bit weird then: "* Announces suspension or disqualification of eduGAIN membership to all Participant Federations and," So it's the "membership" that's being suspended/disqualified, and that's only communicated to all Participant Federations? Everything prior in that section is about Participant Federations and their suspension. And why only communicate the fact that someone was suspended to all Participant Federations instead of all Member Federations? | Peter | This is a leftover from the original document. Could delete the word "participant" from 10th bullet in section 3.6. |
| 3.6 | Suspension reasons. The no confidence vote opens a very vague area. I have a problem explaining this to the lawyer since I cannot imagine a reason for suspension which does not result from one of the first three points. Perhaps we do not need such an open and arbitrary possibility for suspension? | Tomasz | The vagueness is intentional, no change proposed. |
| 3.6 | Disqualification reasons. Contrary to the title of the section no real reasons except for a vote from the SG is given. | Tomasz | It's intended to be a possible end results of suspension, so behaviour that has led to suspension that is so bad permanent disqualification is proposed. |
| 3.6 | Automatic suspension by the OT. I believe this really was meant for technical blocking incoming federation data in cases requiring urgent action. Such a technical action by the OT should not be seen as a suspension. If I misinterpret this then some guidance would be nice. | Tomasz | still see that as suspension. Anything that causes service outage = suspension. |
| All | No governing law is specified. Pointed out by the lawyer as a flaw. | Tomasz | This is in the Declaration, not the Constitution: "Neither the existence of this declaration, nor the exchange of information enabled by it, shall create any new legal obligations or rights between Members or operators of any federation. Members and operators remain bound only by their own respective laws and jurisdictions." |