Policy Development Kit
Accessing, using, and operating services for research in today’s world, as a rule, is inherently distributed, where users access resources outside their home organisations. In this complex environment, the question of trust for users, resource providers, and infrastructures, becomes paramount.
A set of policy documents is necessary to regulate and facilitate this trust. These policies outline the operational measures undertaken by the infrastructure to properly provide services. The policies principally cover security measures, user management and data protection.
What is the Policy Development Kit?
The Policy Development Kit (PDK)) offers policy templates to provide a head start for Research Infrastructures that want to deploy the AARC Blueprint Architecture. The policies are there to provide a starting point, so that Research Infrastructures do not have to re-invent the wheel!
A refreshed Policy Development Kit
Alongside the updated AARC Blueprint Architecture 2025 the effectiveness of the PDK is also enhanced by making it easier for collaborations to adopt and integrate with the new trust framework. The PDK version 2 is now in development and can be viewed (and used already) from the AARC Wiki pages. Be an early beneficiary of smoother trust and a new Snctfi!
In addition to the templates, the AARC community over the years has also developed:
- Learn more about policies for the AARC Blueprint Architecture and videos from this course are also available on the AARC video playlist on YouTube GÉANT tv.
- A Training module on the GDPR Code of Conduct
- A Training Module on Policies for processing personal data
More on AAI policy
- The Sirtfi framework to identify trusted and operationally secure partners in a federated authentication and authorisation environment.
- The Snctfi framework- a ‘Scalable Negotiator for a Community Trust Framework in Federated Infrastructures’.
- The Policy guidelines offer more detailed advice on specific topics.
