Background
The AARC project and the REFEDS Assurance Working Group have developed a proposed assurance framework and two assurance profiles to be used by research and education federations in order to support a variety of assurance needs from service providers. The framework and the profiles specifically avoid the concept of "levels" - recognising on the one hand that the required assurance needs of any given scenario, group, or service do not necessarily map neatly on to a static hierarchy and on the other that home organisations can often meet some sets of requirements in different "levels" in traditional structures but can struggle to meet the complete requirements at any given level. The REFEDS Assurance Framework and assurance profiles intend to meet known use-cases in a pragmatic and tailored way.
With thanks to AARC for supporting man-power to create this proposal.
Note
The Assurance Framework has placeholders for authentication profiles for which REFEDS is carrying out separate consultations. These will be resolved into the framework before publication.
Overview
The consultation opens on Friday 21st April 2017 and will close at 5pm CEST on Friday 9th June 2017.
Participants are invited to:
- Review and comment on the proposed Assurance Framework.
- Review and comment on the proposed assurance profiles proposed by the framework.
Following the consultation all comments will be taken back to the Assurance working group for review and if appropriate the Profile will then be forwarded to the REFEDS Steering Committee for sign-off and publication on the REFEDS website as per the REFEDS participants agreement.
The document for the consultation is available as an attachment to this page. Background on the Assurance Working Group is available. All comments should be made on: consultations@lists.refeds.org or added to the change log below. Comments posted to other lists will not be included in the consultation review.
Change Log
Change Log for the REFEDS Assurance Framework Consultation. Please fill in your comments and change requests below. Line numbers are available in the document for ease of reference.
| Number | Line / Reference | Proposed Change or Query | Proposer | Action / Decision (please leave blank) |
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