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The Policy and Best Practice Harmonisation activity works on operational and security aspects and policies to complement the technical research work carried out in the architecture and pilot work packages, and delivers a set of recommendations and best practices to implement a scalable scaleable and cost-effective policy and operational framework for the integrated AAI. Following the Community First approach, and driven by the use cases from the AARC Pilots, the policy harmonisation task produces both generic guidelines (such as on data protection and acceptable use policy) as well as specific guidelines for communities that are implementing the Blueprint Architecture.

In AARC, we put place primary focus on a selected set of elements :

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that are currently the most pressing for either communties or generic Infrastructure AAIs:

• Security Incident Response in federated environments
• Service- and Infrastructure-centric policy support, includingScaleable policy negotiation and Engagement and coordination
  
  • Protection of (mainly personal) data that is generated as a result of infrastructure use (e.g. in accounting) and the impact of GDPR 
• e-Researcher centric policies, such as
  
  • alignment of Acceptable Use Policies
  • Assurance Level baseline and differentiated assurance profiles (alongside a self-assessment tool)
• Engagement and coordination
• Support for Infrastructures and Communities with the Policy Development Kit (PDK) (jointly with NA2)

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