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TERENA Technical Programme Activities

TERENA Technical Programme, including updates on Task Forces, challenges in lower layer technologies, security, middleware, mobility, voice and video collaboration, and grid campus. Discussion on updating Terms of Reference.

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TERENA Technical Programme Activities

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  1. TERENA Technical Programme Activities Claudio Allocchio TERENA VP Technical Programme http://www.terena.nl/ TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  2. NEW Special Interest Areas • Lower Layer Technologies • Security • Middleware • Mobility • Voice and Video Collaboration • Grid Campus and End-to-End issue coordination are challenges that have an impact across all SIAs TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  3. TERENA Technical Committee The composition of the TTC (October 2004): • Claudio Allocchio - VP Technical Programme • Roberto Barbera - GRID • Steve Williams - Video, Voice, Collaboration • Christoph Graf - Security • Victor Reijs - High Speed Lower Layers and Optical Networking • Ton Verschuren - Middleware • Martin Sutter - E2E and Campus Issues • John Dyer - Chief Technical Officer • Karel Vietsch - Secretary General TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  4. TTP Terms of Reference and reality • The mapping between TTC members and SIAs does not seem to work well: for instance there are SIAs with no corresponding TTC member and vice-versa there are TTC members whose portfolio is not a SIA; • There are SIAs with no corresponding task force, or mailing list or webpage on the TERENA site; on the other hand at a certain time TERENA staff might be active in some technical activity that does not correspond to any SIA; • Limiting the number of SIAs to six sounds very artificial and has indeed led in the past to clustering together technical items that do not necessarily fit. TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  5. Work to Update TTP ToR • The current ToR were adopted in June 1999, and are the evolved result of some historical changes, since the time when TERENA Working Groups were abolished; • There should be some constraints to gurantee that TTP focus is kept on activities where there is real interest (and resources are not unlimited); • We should make the ToR more flexible to fit a quickly evolving reality, instead of taking time to compress reality into obsolete frameworks. TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  6. Task Forces - evolution • TF-AACE --> TF-EMC2, GN2-JRA5 • TF-CSIRT --> continuing, GN2-JRA2 • TF-NETCAST --> TF-VCC • TF-NGN --> refocusing, GN2-JRA1/3/4 • TF-Mobility --> continuing, GN2-JRA5 all together in GN2 NA6 • TF-PR --> end users! TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  7. TF-CSIRT • Mandate renewed for the next 2 years. • Further new activities: • Request Tracker for Incident Response • Vulnerability and Exploit Description and Exchange Format • Collaboration with GN2-JRA2 • Building Blocks for Incident Data Exchange Network • Liaison with the European Commission • Liaison with the European Forum of Abuse Teams • http://www.terena.nl/tech/task-forces/tf-csirt/ TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  8. TF-Mobility • Mandate renewed for the next 2 years. • Updated activities: • Extend eduroam pilot deployment --> service • Roaming Policies and Current Best Practices • Roaming users' feedback collection • Technical support identification at each NREN • IPv6, Qos, MobileIP impact on roaming users • Security implications of roaming access • PR material to promote roaming services in Europe • Collaboration with GN2-JRA5 • http://www.terena.nl/tech/task-forces/tf-mobility/ TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  9. TF-EMC2 • development and deployment of middleware infrastructures at campuses and NRENs level and their interoperability issues • Activities: • Evaluate (and extend?) tacar pilot http://www.tacar.org/ • Liaise and coordinate with GGF, Internet2 MACE, EGEE • Promote and coordinate Middleware service in Campuses • Euro-CAMP • Authorisation-Authentication Request Responder • Collaboration with GN2-JRA5 • Directory Schema • http://www.terena.nl/tech/task-forces/tf-emc2/ TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  10. TF-VVC • voice, video and collaboration technologies for implementation in NRENs • Activities: • Guidelines to providing voice, video and data collaboration services • Content Delivery Infrastructures for Video-on-Demand • Content Access Portal • Metadata • Academic Netcasting Channel (Live Streaming Infrastructure) • Global Dialing Scheme • Integration of conferencing, streaming and data collaboration systems • High-end/quality systems • Usability - improving user interfaces • Access control to video resources • IP telephony deployments • End-to-end measurements • http://www.terena.nl/tech/task-forces/tf-vvc/ TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  11. TF-NGN • Expires in November 2004, follow up under discussion • Issues: • Need to coordinate with GN2 JRA1, JRA3, JRA4 and EGEE activities • new topics include LightPaths, Optical technology and deployment • forum to meet, discuss and start projects in lower layers • important to bring back people from Universities and Research Institutions (not only NRENs) • Complementary work covering what is not done in GN2 JRAs • Schedule: • New Terms of Reference to extend TF-NGN, with identified list of activities and activity leaders, being developed now • Decision to be taken by TTC in December 2004 • Meeting in Brussels 13-14 January 2005 • http://www.terena.nl/tech/task-forces/tf-ngn/ TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  12. Technical Programme Projects • Internal TERENA Activities and Projects • Funded by the community interested in specific projects. • e.g. IP Telephony Cookbook, GNRT, TACAR • Euro-CAMP, Schools on the Net, Certificate Coordination,Trusted Introducer, … • External Projects • (part)-funded by the European Commission • Currently: 6NET, EGEE, SCAMPI, GN2, LOBSTER, NoAH. TRANSITS, MOME • Proposals submitted to 6th Framework Programme:6DISS, SEEFIRE TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  13. IP Telephony Cookbook • a TERENA bestseller http://www.terena.nl/tech/IPtel/ GNRT • another published edition by Pearson Education http://gnrt.terena.nl TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  14. TERENA Academic CA Repository - TACAR • Very successful! ~ 17 (+2) certificates, 50% GRID CA ones • heavily used also by the GRID community, collaboration with EUGridPMA • http://www.tacar.org TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  15. Certificate Coordination • Set up a pilot offering cheap pop-up server certificates at flat-rate fee for each NREN • Establish NREN RA talking to an outsourced CA (to be selected via a tender) • Coordinate with existing R&D CAs • TERENA offer manpower to coordinate the work • Still at BoF level, discussion at TF-EMC2 TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  16. Euro-CAMP • Information exchange for Middleware Campus organisation and technical managers • Coordination activities/interoperability • Regular workshops planning • Coordination with Internet2 CAMP • First workshop in preparation for Spring 2005 • Again in collaboration with TF-EMC2 TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  17. Schools on the Net • Information exchange on how to connect schools to NRENs • Best Practices, problems, issues… • A mixture of policy, security, technical issues • A lot of interest from various TERENA members • A first workshop to be organised soon • It is NOT TTP only! TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  18. External Project - 6NET • TERENA leads the dissemination work package: website, workshops, etc.. • Most results are publicly available! • 6Net Conference and Eurov6 Showcase • IPv4-IPv6 Transition cookbook, IPv6 and DNS • Collaboration beyond its area (Silknet) • It ignited IPv6 deployment in production networks (GEANT, NRENs) • Officially ends Dec 2004, possible extension to June 2005 • Publish IPv6 cookbook (commercial publisher) • Dismiss of dedicated 6net links, migration to GEANT TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  19. External Project - SCAMPI • EU-funded project led by TERENA: April 2002 – September 2004. Extension to March 2005 • Testing devices and applications at 10Gb/s (now). • In final Debugging and Performance tuning phase • Includes dedicated API for developing standard applications. • Outcome used in various GN2 JRAs (JRA1, JRA2, JRA4) TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  20. External Project - TRANSITS • TRAining of Network Security Incident Teams’ Staff • EC-funded project led by TERENA: July 2002 – June 2005 • Develops and maintains course material for training CSIRT staff • Holds training workshops (with travel funding for NAS countries) TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  21. External Project - MOME • Monitoring and Measurement Cluster • Led by Salzburg Research • TERENA Dissemination partner • Website, mailing lists • Host measurement database • Two – 1-day workshops • Sessions at TNC 2005 TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  22. NREN Compendium • Compendium has been published annually since 2000. • Collection of relevant information about European NRENs: • Administrative data and legal form. • Number of users and market share. • Internal and external connectivity, and capacity of links. • Network traffic, load and congestion indicators. • Services, staffing and funding. • Projects and NRENs interest areas. • Provides overview of network status in each country. • A good tool for lobbying governments and/or funding bodies! • COMREN is over, for 2004 it is on TERENA resources • From 2005 it is part of GN2 project. TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  23. News from the GRID • TF-EMC2 has the specific goal to collaborare with middleware activities in GGF and EGEE • to promote Information exchange • fill up missing parts • Many NRENs directly involved with grid projects • TERENA, DANTE and others in EGEE Network Federation TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  24. EGEE • TERENA leads the dissemination activities • Website, Printed Material, 4 EGEE Conferences in 2 years • A LOT of effort being put into, by TERENA staff (>3FTE) • A management challenge • Feedback for NRENs: • Information about users' grid activities/projects • Providing information to grid users' about NRENs • Further indirect exchanges: knowledge interactions • WE want more back. • The TEC is working on the issue. TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  25. GN2 • TERENA tasks: • (NA3) Users Support and Consultancy - Central support for with DANTE. • (NA4) NREN Development and Support • Next editions of NREN Compendium • Assistance to R&E networking in less-advanced regions (GN2, SEEREN and EUMEDCONNECT countries only) • (NA5) Foresight Study • (NA6) Coordination of RTD activities • Organisation of TERENA task forces, liaisons with JRAs • Participation in GN2 Project Management: TERENA President and Secretary General TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  26. GN2 NA6 Coordination of RTD Activities • JRA1- Performance Measurement and Management • A comprehensive Network Management Framework • TF-NGN PERT • JRA2 - Security • Network Security Components • TF-CSIRT, TF-AACE --> TF-EMC • JRA3 - New Service Development • Bandwidth on Demand • TF-NGN • JRA4 - Technology and Service Testing • Implement a Distributed Test Facility • TF-NGN • JRA5 - Mobility and Ubiquity • Creation of an Interoperable AAI • TF-AACE --> TF-EMC • OTHERS to come, created inside TERENA community TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  27. GN2 NA4 NREN Development and Support • Assistance to Research and Education Networking in Less-advanced Regions: • GN2 participating countries, + those connected via SEEREN and EUMEDCONNECT • 2-4 focus countries/year • Assessment of needs, specific support measures (workshops, consultancy, …) • Development Support Advisory Panel (currently) • Claudia Battista, GARR • Marko Bonac, ARNES • Sabine Jaume, RENATER • Jorge Sanchez, GRNET • Valentino Cavalli, TERENA • Terms of Reference to be delivered December 2004 TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  28. LOBSTER • TERENA, information dissemination, web, workshops • Design and deploy infrastructure for accurate traffic monitoring, successor of SCAMPI • Collaboration with Internet2 activities and TF-NGN • TNO Telecom, FORTHnet, FORTH, Alcatel, Endace, UNINETT, CESNET, VUA • Started October 1st 2004 TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  29. NoAH • NoAH is a support action for Design Studies and building of new infrastructures and accompanying measures • Study the idea and deployability of an "Honeypot" network in Europe (NRENs, ISPs, Universities, Large Organisations) • TERENA Job: you guess what (dissemination, WEB, …) • FORTH, FORTHnet, DFN, ETH Zuerich, VUA, Virtual Trip • In conrtact negotiation phase TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  30. 3rd IST Call Specific Support Actions: new proposals (1) • 6DISS - Dissemination of IPv6 knowledge and best-practice • Martell Consulting, Cisco, GRNET, RENATER, FCCN, UCL, University of Southampton, TERENA • organise training workshops in world regions targeted by the call, including the Balkans, the Caucasus, North African and South African countries, Latin America and the Caribbean, and to exchange information with India and China • TERENA is the disseminating partner, and liaison with CLARA TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  31. 3rd IST Call Specific Support Actions: new proposals (2) • SEEFIRE - South-East European Fibre Infrastructure for Research and Education • TERENA (coordinator), GRNET, CESNET, HUNGARNET and AMREJ (main partners), Analysys consulting and all NRENs involved in the SEEREN project (subcontractors). • exploit the results of SEEREN, GÉANT and SERENATE • deliver a database of available fibre plants in South East Europe • deliver studies in fibre deployment and transmission technologies suitable for building NREN-owned fibre networks • Deliver a strategic study dealing with telecom regulations TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

  32. Questions? TERENA GA – Limassol, 21 October 2004

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