1. AARC Strategy and Approach
Licia Florio
AARC Coordinator
AARC2 Kick off Meeting
06-08 June, 2017, Bad Herrenalb

2. AARC Objectives
Deliver production-ready architectural building blocks and best practices to enable r/e-infrastructures to build interoperable AAI
Avoid a future in which new research collaborations develop independent AAIs

3. Strategy
Improve adoption of FIM – Promote FIM key aspects, increase number IdPs by leveraging providers outside the academic boundaries and deliver training modules.
Address eScience requirements – Deliver a blueprint architecture (on top of eduGAIN) to plug in solutions that meet eScience requirements.
Offer support for global policies – Work on and sponsor the development of key policy frameworks that aim to add additional ‘flavours’ to eduGAIN.
Make results sustainable – Pilot results in production environments and ensure that pilots operations and, security and policy frameworks rest with r/e-infrastructures.

4. Who are our main ‘clients’?
Research and e-infrastructures
AARC should act as the interface between the eScience and the federations/eduGAIN
Libraries?
We should continue and promote the work done in the last 2 years.
Everything that involves campus and institutions is not in scope
Unless it is about providing recommendations

5. Make AARC Results available outside AARC
e-infras
JRA1
NA2
NA3
SA1
Community
Engagement
FIM4R
Any result we want others to use
REFEDS
WISE
IGTF
Competence centre

6. AARC and the rest of the world
Consultations/Feedback
REFEDS
FIM4R/IGTF/WISE
r/e-infras as needed
Accreditation and peer-review
IGTF
Operations
Integrate AARC results
Develop business case 6

7. Dissemination and Exploitation Plan
First Draft to be ready soon
Living doc
Become the final report