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TERENA Technical Programme Update

TERENA Technical Programme Update. Claudio Allocchio VP Technical Programme TERENA General Assembly Meeting 21 October 2005 Budapest. 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

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TERENA Technical Programme Update

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  1. TERENATechnical ProgrammeUpdate Claudio Allocchio VP Technical Programme TERENA General Assembly Meeting 21 October 2005 Budapest TERENA Technical Programme - UpdateGeneral Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest

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

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

  4. Pop-Up Problem • If sever certificate is not trusted: • Pop-up • Manual Check required • Many just accept TERENA Technical Programme - UpdateGeneral Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest

  5. Trusted Roots • Has to be incorporated into browser • Must be issued by an accredited CA • Expensive • NRENs can collectively seek a solution TERENA Technical Programme - UpdateGeneral Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest

  6. The SCS SolutionStatus • Public Call Issued www.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 TERENA Technical Programme - UpdateGeneral Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest

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

  8. 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 refeds@terena.nl TERENA Technical Programme - UpdateGeneral Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest

  9. 2nd EuroCAMP http://www.terena.nl/tech/eurocamp/nov05/ TERENA Technical Programme - UpdateGeneral Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest

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

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

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

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

  14. 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, …) TERENA Technical Programme - UpdateGeneral Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest

  15. 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 ? TERENA Technical Programme - UpdateGeneral Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest

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

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