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comment # | Line/Reference # | Proposed Change or Query | Proposer / Affiliation | Action / Decision (please leave blank) |
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1 | general | I think it is strange that a report on Academic Interfederation does not mentioned eduGAIN at all. This seems a significant oversight. | Nicole Harris, GÉANT | |
2 | 616 | The report makes a recommendation that new governance structure for federation be put in place but does not analyse or discuss why the group feels the current models are ineffective. To make this point, i feel this analysis is needed. There are many groups looking at federation - REFEDS, eduGAIN, FIM4R, FIM4L, AEGIS etc. The report does not mention them. | Nicole Harris, GÉANT | |
3 | 627 | "Academic Interfederation exists, but is not coordinated nor resourced as a viable and evolving infrastructure" - this statement implies that the eduGAIN infrastructure is neither resourced nor viable. This needs addressing. | Nicole Harris, GÉANT | |
4 | 1036 and 665 | These comments on the volunteer nature of the community seem to contradict each other. I'd also challenge the participation in REFEDS by many individuals as strictly "volunteer" as most people are participating on paid time from their organisations | Nicole Harris, GÉANT | |
5 | 208 | The use of "federal" and also the examples provided might lead to believe this is a US based thing, which is of cause totally not the case. Perhaps showcasing examples from around the globe would strengthen the notion this is a global effort. | Niels van Dijk, SURF | |
6 | General |
| Josh Howlett, Federated Solutions | |
7 | 341 | The figure refers to the bottom-right quadrant as "Multiply or Divide" but the text beginning on line 341 uses "Multiple and Divide". | Andrew Morgan, Oregon State University | |
8 | 445 | I think this line is a cut-and-paste error. It says, "I Will Survive: A story of directed action under abundant resources", but I think it should be "I Will Survive: A story of autonomous action under limited resources" (or some variation). This is the heading of the Autonomous, Limited scenario. | Andrew Morgan, Oregon State University | |
9 | general | The report does not address specifically the main current interfederation effort, eduGAIN, so the many "calls to action" generically directed to the Academic Intefederation does not have a clear reference and it is difficult to understand who should take action. This is a competing world. It is difficult to imagine that a strong Academic Interfederation leadership will be enough to fight the risk to be marginalized by the BigTech initiatives. The Academic Interfederation must compete on user experience, meeting expectations and technology standards. The Academic Interfederation is invited to "present a single face to the world", but the Academic Interfederation does not exit in a vacuum. It is part of that world that it should interact with. Moreover the "single face" paradigm is not acknowledging the important regional differences of the members of the Academic Interfederation community. A single face or a single voice must be based on the synthesis of the many voices on which the community of reference is composed. | Davide Vaghetti, GARR | |
10 | 546 | In the "Participation and inclusion are the cornerstone of Academic Interfederation" key takeaway, we can read that "success depends on implementing common requirements across each R&E federation", but this is a "slow and unreliable process". Then the proposed solution "To expand participation and make global collaboration more inclusive" is a non sequitur, as it deals with creating new national federations or inclusivity of federated access, but none is said about the main subject which was presented as "implementing common requirements". | Davide Vaghetti, GARR | |
11 | 606 - 612 | Line 608 and 609 both suggest that new /young(er) staff should be hired and trained to take over the role of the more experienced staff. | Casper Dreef, | |
12 | 627-630 | A questionable statement keeping in mind eduGAIN exists and is resourched. | Casper Dreef, GÉANT | |
13 | 932-937 | What is the relevance of this section? | Casper Dreef, GÉANT |