Update Procedures

This document outlines the maintainers and update procedures to suggest and initiate changes to the GA4GH Researcher Identities & Access Claims specifications and documentation.

Specification maintainers

Name: Martin Kuba
Host Institute: Masaryk University
Email Address: makub@ics.muni.cz
GitHub: @martin-kuba

Name: David Bernick
Host Institute: Broad Institute
Email Address: dbernick@broadinstitute.org
GitHub: @davidbernick

Specifications updates

The GA4GH Researcher Identities & Access Claims standard is established by members of the Data Use and Research Indentities (DURI) work stream.

To suggest or innitiate changes to the specifications please first contact the specification maintainers.

Prior to recommending changes please:

• refer to the landing page for additional information about the purpose and use of the standard.
• identify and provide the following information:
  1. Your name and affiliation
  2. If you are currently a member of GA4GH and in what capacity
  3. If you are currently using an implementation of Passports
  4. Whether you are recommending the change on behalf of one or more of the following:
     • an implementation of the spec
     • the Passports specification itself
     • or other documentation in the researcher_ids directory
  5. A full description of the recommendation you are making

A maintainer will get back to you shortly and may elect to raise your recommendation at the next Passports work stream meeting which typically occur every 6 weeks. Passports and related specifications are community driven projects and we value your input.