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TERENA Technical Programme Update

TERENA General Assembly Sofia, Bulgaria 24 October 2008 Christoph Graf TERENA VP Technical Programme christoph.graf@switch.ch. TERENA Technical Programme Update. Overview. Special Interest Areas (SIAs) Technical Task Forces: TF-CSIRT, TF-ECS, TF-EMC2, TF-Mobility, TF-Storage

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TERENA Technical Programme Update

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  1. TERENA General Assembly Sofia, Bulgaria24 October 2008 Christoph GrafTERENA VP Technical Programme christoph.graf@switch.ch TERENA Technical Programme Update

  2. Overview • Special Interest Areas (SIAs) • Technical Task Forces: • TF-CSIRT, TF-ECS, TF-EMC2, TF-Mobility, TF-Storage • Technical Workshops: • E2E Provisioning Workshop • TERENA Small Projects: • NREN Enhanced Communications Server (N-ECS) • External Projects: • FEDERICA • Related Services: • TACAR, SCHAC, SCS, TI

  3. SIAs • Lower-layer technologies (Layers 0-4) • Security • Middleware • Mobility • Voice and Video Collaboration • Virtualisation In addition, Campus and End-to-End issue coordination are challenges that have an impact across all special interest areas, while Grid collaborations span many of the areas.

  4. TF-CSIRT THE networking platform for security teams in Europe Beyond NRENs (GovCERTs, ISPs) & liaising beyond Europe Currently 70+ participants at meetings 3 times/year Running period: 2000 - May 2010 Task Force Chair: Gorazd Božič -> Lionel Ferrette Task Force Secretary: Kevin Meynell, TERENA Was rechartered in May 2008 for another 2-year period, with new and revised activities. Services: Trusted Introducer (TI), TRANSITS courses Activities: IRT object in RIPE database Open-source incident handling system Security toolkit training (with GN2 JRA2) CSIRT exercises (with ENISA) Drill exercises Establishment of new CSIRTs

  5. TF-ECS SIP and friends for voice, IM and presence From “SIP rules” to “connecting SIP islands” Running period: October 2006 - September 2008 Co-Chairs: Erik Dobbelsteijn, TWIYO, Fabio Vena, SWITCH Secretary: Peter Szegedi, TERENA Achievements: Fully functional SIP/H.323 open-source communication server for the NREN environment known as N-ECS (and its documentation) Future: Challenges in real-time video communications (plans to be rechartered) Workshop on Media Recording and Repository – follow up from BoF at TNC in Bruges

  6. TERENA Project: Manual for ”NREN - Enhanced Communications Server” (N-ECS) • Jumpstarting SIP playground with NREN goodies (nrenum.net, GDS) • Running period: March 2008 - October 2008 • Contractor: Erik Dobbelsteijn, TWIYO • TERENA contact person: Peter Szegedi • Achievement: • Input: preconfigured N-ECS images (can be downloaded) • Output: final text of the manual: ”TERENA SIP Handbook” (done, can be downloaded soon) • http://www.terena.org/n-ecs/

  7. Bottom layer of the application PKI Directories and schemas {Con-, inter}federation Reputation Top layer of the network Mobility Network access Endpoint assessment Provider integration Across the Stack The Application The Middleware The Network

  8. TF-EMC2 • The “middleware kitchen” with lots of food, many pots and many cooks with a common sense for good food • Running period: October 2006 - September 2008 • Chair: Diego Lopez, RedIRIS • Secretary: Licia Florio, TERENA • Number of participants 40-45 • Active members 20-25 • Activities/achievements: • Spin-off projects/activities such as: SCHAC, SCS, TACAR, REFEDS • Support for information exchange and tests in the area of PKI, Identity Federations, etc. • Close liaison with the Grid community, libraries etc. • New charter ready for discussion during the next TTC Meeting in November 2008

  9. SCS Important Deadlines SCS=Server Certificate Service, started in early 2006, current contract expiring in January 2010, call for proposals published in September 2008 • 20 October 2008 - 12:00 hr - Deadline to request clarification on the Call for Proposals • 27 October 2008 - 14:00 hr - Deadline to provide answers to the questions and corrections to the proposal (if any) • 10 November 2008 - 12:00 hr - Deadline to submit proposals; • End of December 2008 - End of selection and awarding process • First half of January 2009 - Two-week period for objections • Mid January 2009 - Estimated contract date

  10. TF-Mobility • Roaming technologies, beyond eduroam & eduroam beyond Europe (travelling salesman: TF-Mobility, SA5: paperwork), discussion forum beyond NRENs • Running period: October 2006 - September 2008 • Chair: Klaas Wierenga, Cisco Systems • Secretary: Licia Florio, TERENA • Number of participants: ± 20 • Active members: 15 • Activities span over: • eduroam operational issues and deployment -> GN2 • Network endpoint assessment for roaming • Sensor networks • Diagnostics • Location based services • New charter ready for discussion during the next TTC meeting in November 2008

  11. TF-Mobility main achievements • Supporting eduroam deployments beyond GN2 borders • Universities, Canada, APAN region • Establishing liaisons with groups active in network endpoint assessment • NAC (Network Admission Control) carried out by Cisco • TNC (Trusted Network Connect) carried out within the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), • NEA (Network EndPoint Assessment) - IETF • Providing inputs for GN2/JRA5: • RadSec • DAMe

  12. TF-Storage • Investigate storage services / storage as a service in the NREN world • Running period: February 2008 - February 2010 • Task Force Chair: Jan Meijer, UNINETT • Task Force Secretary: Peter Szegedi, TERENA • Num. of participants: ~20 organisations (~30-35 people) • Active participants: ~8-10 organisations • Activities: • Now: Sharing information and ideas, building up the community, Poste Restante service development • Up next: Storage system taxonomy (vocabulary for evaluating storage solutions), AAI

  13. FEDERICA Project E-infrastructure for future Internet research Network, computing and virtualisation as building blocks (similar to GENI) Users: researchers in academia and private environment Running period: January 2008 - June 2010 Core infrastructure up in Oct 2008 (initially 4 sites) Project manager: Mauro Campanella, GARR 20 participating organisations Kevin Meynell leader of NA2(user community), NA4(dissemination & training) Peter Szegedi leader of JRA2(future Internet architecture & end user control) TERENA Deliverables produced so far: ‘Early FEDERICA User Requirements’ (NA2) ‘Architectures for virtual infrastructures, new Internet paradigms and business models’ (JRA2)

  14. E2E Provisioning Workshop- Establishing Lightpaths - • Dates and venue • 1-2 December 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands • Topic • Provisioning of end-to-end (E2E) lightpaths (i.e. Gigabit Ethernet circuits or even lambdas) between end-users’ sites via NRENs. • In order to set up end-to-end connections, cooperation is necessary between NRENs, metropolitan, campus and local networks • The workshop is focusing on the ‘last mile’ challenges, including technical issues (fibers, transmission technologies, interfacing, firewalls, NATs, etc.) as well as administrative issues (co-ordinations, processes, SLAs, co-location, etc.). • Target audience • campus or research centre network or system administrators, managers, IT specialists, as well as NREN representatives

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