Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest 1...

TERENA Technical Programme - UpdateGeneral Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest

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TERENATechnical Programme

Update

Claudio AllocchioVP Technical Programme

TERENA

General Assembly Meeting

21 October 2005

Budapest


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Technical Programme Update

• Covers last four months since GA in Poznan• Progress in report GA(05)16• Major effort in supporting Task Forces

• GN2 NA6 • 35 page report• Will be available soon from: http://www.geant2.net

• Special Focus on Middleware and Grids


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Middleware Activities

• SCS Server Certificate Service• SCHAC Schema extensions • TACAR Anchor of Trust• REFEDS Feds of Feds• TF-EMC2 Collaboration &

Coordination• TF-Mobility Roaming• EuroCAMP Campus Middleware


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Pop-Up Problem

• If sever certificate is not trusted:

• Pop-up• Manual Check required• Many just accept


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Trusted Roots

• Has to be incorporated into browser

• Must be issued by an accredited CA

• Expensive

• NRENs can collectively seek a solution


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The SCS SolutionStatus

• Public Call Issuedwww.terena.nl/tech/task-forces/tf-emc2/scs.html

Announced in Official Journal of EC

• Number of Proposals Received• Evaluated by Panel from NRENs• Negotiations with contractors taking place• Pilot for 1 year• Expect Service to start early 2006


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Cotswold Group

• Single meeting October 2004• Initiative of UK JISC• Well attended by NRENs • Action Plan

• Cookbook

• Framework for federation of federations

• Evangelical/Political Activities

• Little apparent progress in last 12 months


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Research & EducationFederations (REFEDS)

• Informal meeting at TNC 2005• Mainly Cotswold Group members• Again in September 2005• Enthusiasm to work together on practical issues• TERENA will host:

• Webpages: www.terena.nl/tech/refeds/• Links to policy statements

• Information on mandatory attributes

• Email distribution list [email protected]


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2nd EuroCAMP

http://www.terena.nl/tech/eurocamp/nov05/


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NRENs and GRIDs

• TERENA move from one specific Grid project• NRENs interactions with Grid Community• 1st workshop 12 May 2005

• Wide ranging• Mostly NREN delegates + EGEE• Need to involve more Grid Projects• Suggested 7 areas to be addressed

• Global AAI• Deterministic Schedulable E2E pipes• QoS, Security, Training . . . . .

http://www.terena.nl/tech/grid/nren-workshop.html


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2nd NREN Grids WorkshopMonday 17th October 2005

• Global inter-working AAI • AAI from the NREN perspective - Klaas Wierenga,

SURFnet, NL • NRENs supporting Grids using current Grid Technology -

Milan Sova, CESNET, CZ • Perspectives of Integrating AAI with Grid in EGEE-2 -

Christoph Witzig, SWITCH, CH • NRENs, Grids and Integrated AAI, Christos Kanellopoulos,

AUTH, GR

• Schedulable deterministic end-to-end pipes• Jean-Marc Uze, Juniper Networks

• Discussion Session


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2nd NREN Grids WorkshopOutcomes

• Document GAP analysis – conceptual vision • Grid understandings versus NREN understandings

• Need a discussion of the necessary tools to support VOs. • Will be supported by the REFEDS work in TERENA

• Need more Campus representatives directly involved• Campuses are (generally) the identity provider • Most VOs and Grids are totally unprepared to deal with “providing

identities” for tens of 1000s of users• Need to help users be aware of issues

• Establish a good 2-way interface between Grid and the network community


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2nd NREN Grids Workshop• 53 attendees• Participation by 6 Grid projects• High Satisfaction rating – 93%• Presentations on line Report to be issues shortly

3rd NREN Grids Workshop• March/April 2006• Tight Focus• Grid Community to be proactively invited• Target some Campus delegates


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Other Highlights from TTP

• TF-VVC• Report on real time communication & collaboration services

to support international projects (Where? How to? What? For non expert users)

• HD Workshop

• TF-CSIRT• Links with CERT/CC, APAN, Internet2• Using security tools (for example netflow)

• End User & Campus issues• Report in preparation on major challenges (last mile,

security, identities, …)


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Challenges

• GA(05)017 as a reference• Mixture of general purpouse GN2/NRENs/… and

dedicated (or on demand) "paths"• Routing protocols/models and scalability?• Authorisation/authentications to enable "power users"?• On-line real-time network status to enable decisions?• Apply security to a meshed, non-hiearchical, volatile set of

"main entrances and back doors" ?• Other problems we cannot still guess until we step into one ?


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Technical Programme Outlook for next 12 months

• Continued collaboration with GN2 activities• Major role in middleware coordination

• Specifically in the AAI space• Mobility space• Confederations

• Focused Knowledge Transfer• EuroCAMP • NRENs / Grids

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