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If you cannot get such a certificate to send signed emails or if your personal certificate is issued from a CA not listed in the TACAR service, please contact edugain-ot@geant.net the contact the eduGAIN Operations Team in in order to establish a different secure communications channel.
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The Policy Declaration document for the eduGAIN Policy Framework (available at eduGAIN_policy_declaration v2.0.pdf http://www.geant.net/service/eduGAIN/resources/Documents/GN3-10-327%20eduGAIN_policy_declaration%20v2.0.pdf). (BAD LINK)on the eduGAIN documents page).
Federation Action List
A person who is authorized to represent the federation should sign the printed document and send it to the postal address of the eduGAIN Operations Team:
eduGAIN c/o GÉANT 468D Singel 1017AWLevel 6
Hoekenrode 3 1012BR Amsterdam The Netherlands
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The eduGAIN Downstream metadata contains all entities in eduGAIN. It is generated and published by the eduGAIN Metadata Distribution Service (MDS) under , see https://mdstechnical.edugain.org/metadata for details.
The downstream metadata is needed because you federation’s entities that are part of eduGAIN should also consume metadata about other eduGAIN entities. Therefore, you as federator operator should provide your entities with that downstream metadata. It is strongly recommended to provide an own version of eduGAIN metadata to your local entities and not directly make them consume from MDS. Consuming eduGAIN metadata directly from MDS is considered bad practice for several reasons. MDS was not built to serve metadata to potentially thousands of entities. Also, you as federation operator lose the ability to filter out eduGAIN entities that for example are not compliant with your federation policy. Furthermore, this might result in conflicts because your entities might load metadata for other eduGAIN entities of your federation twice (once via MDS and once via your local federation’s metadata).
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Information on how to republish the eduGAIN downstream metadata can be found in Republish _ eduGAIN _ Metadata.
Metadata Signing Certificate
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eduGAIN is governed by the eduGAIN Steering Group (https://technical.edugain.org/governance.phpsee eduGAIN governance). Each federation should assign one delegate and at least one deputy to participate in the eduGAIN Steering Group (eSG). The eSG decides for example if a new federation is accepted as eduGAIN member or not. Therefore, there role of a delegate serves an important purpose.
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- Write guides for your SPs and IdPs on how to make use of eduGAIN and publish them on your federation’s website. See for example the following guides from Switch, Renater :
- Organize events, trainings for your community.
- Create mailing lists when eduGAIN related issues will be discussed.
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You can perform the following steps to stay updated with the latest discussions/events:
- Your federation’s deputy and delegate should register to the eduGAIN steering group mailing list
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- Your federation’s deputy and delegate and possibly other key members of the operations team should register to the following mailing lists:
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