Participation

Federation is a complex space, and South Africa is grappling with the implication of new privacy legislation. Whilst we’ve tried to make SAFIRE’s Participation Agreement easy for the likely signatory — a federation layman — to understand, experience has shown that there are sometimes misunderstandings of the technology and gaps in interpretation. This document is intended to consolidate that experience into a practice note for legal departments and other people trying to make sense of the SAFIRE Participation Agreement.

On Thursday 21 September, we held a SAFIRE Participants’ Forum meeting. This post summarises the significant outcome of that meeting.

On Thursday 21 September, we’ll be convening a meeting of the SAFIRE Participants Forum. The preliminary agenda for this meeting contains a single item: the future governance of the South African Identity Federation.

• Venue: ZA·REN Week ‘23 Conference, Protea Hotel Breakwater Lodge, Cape Town
• Date: 21 September 2023
• Time: 13:00-15:00

Changes to the Participation Agreement are approved by TENET’s Board of Directors. Version v20161018 reached rough consensus within the community and was subsequently ratified on 26 October 2016. This revision contains minor edits to acknowledge the publication of a fee structure on 1 May 2019, and to record the Participation Agreement’s subordinance to the 2020 revision of TENET’s REN Master Service Agreement.

There are some notes on interpretation available to help decision makers.

In terms of section 3.3.2 of the SAFIRE Participation Agreement, TENET — as the Federation Operator — hereby gives notice of a new cost structure with effect from 1 May 2019.

At its 26 September 2017 meeting, TENET’s Board of Directors approved terms of reference for a SAFIRE Steering Committee.

Changes to the Participation Agreement are approved by TENET’s Board of Directors. This version reached rough consensus within the community and was subsequently ratified on 26 October 2016. As a revision of v20160916, it contains minor typographical edits and the insertion of one new clause at 6.5.

There are some notes on interpretation available to help decision makers.

Please sign and scan (or electronically sign) a copy of the Participation Agreement and email it to us. TENET is happy to accept scanned documents and/or electronic signatures, and will normally return an electronically signed copy to you.

The following PDF document contains a final draft of SAFIRE’s Participation Agreement. This agreement has achieved rough consensus within SAFIRE’s membership, and is currently awaiting legal review. There are not likely to be any substantive changes to this document, but the review process may result in a further revision.

This version of the document was submitted to eduGAIN on 18 September 2016.

This page documents the history of SAFIRE’s Participation Agreement and will display the most recent version. You should always reference this page when linking to the Participation Agreement, unless you intend to link to a specific, versioned document.

Changes to the Participation Agreement are approved by TENET’s Board of Directors on recommendation from the SAFIRE Steering Committee.