Management Liaison
A Management Liaison (ML) is a person authorised by an organisation to make requests to the federation operator to register or amend entities (identity providers or service providers) on its behalf. A Management Liaison would also register an organisation's use of an outsourced provider. Only a Management Liaison (or, less usually, an Executive Liaison) can register an entity, and only an ML (or EL) or the Administrative Contact for a given entity may request changes to that entity.
Each member organisation must have at least one Management Liaison, nominated by the Executive Liaison (EL) when applying to join the federation. Larger organisations might find it administratively convenient to have more than one Management Liaison, who may be nominated by the Executive Liaison in the letter of application, or subsequently. Additions or changes to Management Liaisons may only be made by the Executive Liaison.
If an organisation has more than one Management Liaison, the Executive Liaison may choose to allocate responsibilities between them, for example in a manner reflecting the organisation's internal structure. However the federation operator does not record and is not aware of such allocations.
In most cases, a Management Liaison will be an officer of the organisation itself, perhaps a senior manager responsible for technical development. Each Management Liaison will be responsible to the Executive Liaison.
Replacing a Management Liaison
A Management Liaison may only be appointed or replaced by an Executive Liaison.