AARC Policy Development Kit Revision

To facilitate the trust establishment between AAI participants using the Blueprint Architecture as their model, the AARC community designed a trust framework for proxies and Snctfi research services (AARC-I082). This trust framework identifies five distinct target audiences: external identity sources, the identity, collaboration management, and infrastructure integration components, and site-local integrations and services. However, each of these target audiences will have to address similar aspects of trust and of their mutual interactions. To facilitate this task, especially for the most prevalent use case of ‘small-to-medium-sized’ collaborations (a few tens up to a few hundred collaborators), AARC provides a Policy Development Kit (PDK) that has bring together community good practice in terms of policy templates, notice templates, proven processes, and reference procedures that communities can adopt and extend as-needed. The initial version of the PDK provided policy templates only, and its use required a level of expertise over which most communities did not avail. The revised ‘version 2’ of the PDK follows the target-audience approach of the trust framework, and is provided as an interactive set of pages with a common structure addressable through a clickable map.