TERENA Activities Internet2 Members Meeting, International Task Force 8 October 2007

1. TERENA ActivitiesInternet2 Members Meeting, International Task Force8 October 2007

2. TERENA Organisation • A not-for-profit association of European National Research and Education Networks • Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands • Membership: • 36 National Members (NRENs) • 2 International Members (CERN & ESA) • 10 Associate Members (DANTE, NORDUnet, equipment vendors & telecoms operators) • Main goals: • Representing common interests and opinions of membership • Knowledge transfer • Developing, testing and promoting new technologies • Fostering new services

3. NREN Compendium • Compendium has been published annually since 2000. • Collection of relevant information about European and some African, Asian and N & S American NRENs (58): • Organisational information and legal form • Funding and staffing details • Number of users/clients, and type of connectivity • Internal and external connectivity, capacity of links, technologies, dark fibre availability • Traffic data • Types of services offered • Provides overview of network status in each country. • New 2007 edition available on TERENA website, and as published report. • http://www.terena.org/activities/compendium/

4. EARNEST Foresight Study • GN2 networking activity to investigate the evolution of European research and education networking over next 5+ years. • Seven sub-study areas: • Organisational and Governance issues • Economic issues (move to dark fibre, and provision of new services) • Researchers’ needs (what type of network and services are required?) • Other users’ needs (e.g. schools, healthcare, arts & humanities) • Technical issues (transmission, control plane & routing, network virtualisation, operations and performance, middleware) • Geographic issues (developing measures to quantify digital divide) • Campus issues (infrastructure, services, expertise and collaboration) • Aims to identify trends, developments and to make recommendations for future research and education networks. • All sub-study reports plus final conclusions available shortly. • http://www.terena.org/activities/earnest/

5. TF-Mobility • Promotes, develops and tests technologies that allow roaming between networks. • Established the eduroam pilot service that permits inter-institutional WLAN roaming. • Currently involved in GN2-NA5 activity to develop eduroam into full production service. • New activities include: • Improving monitoring and measurement of eduroam service. • Considering how to facilitate interoperability with other roaming services. • Looking at Mobile IP implementations, particularly MIPv6. • http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-mobility/

6. TF-EMC2 • Discusses middleware issues and fosters collaboration. • Established Secure Certificate Service (SCS). • Setup Schema Harmonisation Committee (SCHAC) to develop standard identity schema for higher education inter-institutional data exchange. • Currently working on REFEDS (Research and Education Federations) initiative: • Investigating technical specifications for authentication and authorisation between identity federations • Defining policies and guidelines for peering of federations, starting from common denominators. • How to handle overlaps between R&E, government and commercial sectors. • Agree “Levels of Assurance”. • Identify major projects that can benefit from cross-federation peerings. • Organised 1st International REFEDS meeting on 3 September 2007 in Prague. • http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-emc2

7. TF-CSIRT • Promotes collaboration and knowledge transfer between European CSIRTs. • Includes NREN, ISP, government and commercial CSIRTS. • Meets three times per year, to discuss issues of common interest and new approaches. • Establish pilot services (e.g. trusted introducer, tracker database) and common standards and procedures). • Assist new CSIRTs (e.g. through training and mentoring). • Prevent miscommunication between NRENs, the EU, and national governments. • Developed TRANSITS training material and runs training courses (with FIRST and ENISA). • http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-csirt/

8. TF-PR (Public Relations) • Promotes collaboration in areas of public relations and information dissemination. • Aims to improve exchange of information within the European R&E community. • Established PeAR news wire – online system for posting news items. • Develops and publishes publicity material of common interest. • Produces Glossary of Terms, HOWTOs and FAQs. • http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-pr/ • http://www.terena.org/news/community/ (PeAR)

9. TF-LCPM (Life Cycle and Portfolio Management) • Works to improve service and product delivery amongst NRENs. • NRENs must provide services to increasing demanding and critical users. • NRENs are facing competition from commercial ISPs, so must continue to distinguish themselves. • Compares and analyses NREN service portfolios (e.g. what services are offered)? • Compares service level agreements. • Shares information and ideas for new services (e.g. Mail Dike). • http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-lcpm/

10. Server Certificate Service(SCS) • Established in response to need for SSL server certificates in research and education community. • Many NRENs had set-up a CA, but issued certificates not listed as trusted by web browsers (the ‘pop-up’ problem). • Purchasing certificates directly from commercial CAs is expensive. • TERENA contracted GlobalSign to run dedicated CA for NRENs (and by extension their user communities). • Service commenced in 2006, and will run until at least 2010. • Enables certificates to be issued for low cost. • Currently 14 participating NRENs (acting as RAs), and >10K certificates issued. • http://www.terena.org/activities/scs/

11. TERENA Academic CA Repository (TACAR) • A trusted repository for holding verified root CA certificates of TERENA members. • Holds certificates directly managed by the member NRENs, belonging to national academic PKIs, or related institutes or projects (e.g. EUGridPMA). • Operating since 2003. • Accreditation process for collection and updating of certificates in root CA. • Certificates made publicly available via secure website, along with policies • http://www.terena.org/activities/earnest/

12. 6DISS Project • Provided IPv6 training and knowledge transfer in various regions around the world. • Utilised operational experience of 6NET and Euro6IX projects. • Organised 13 practical training workshops & 2 informational events. • Developed extensive IPv6 tutorial material that may be freely used. • E-Learning package with Portuguese and Russian subtitles (others can potentially be added) available online and as CD image. • IPv6 Deployment Guide available. • IPv6 testbed available for training and testing purposes. • http://www.6diss.org/

13. FEDERICA Project • New EC-funded project (under FP7 e-Infrastructures). • 21 partners, including 11 NRENs, Juniper & Siemens. • Aims to develop a European-wide scalable and technology agnostic network infrastructure for disruptive experiments. • Testbed will initially comprise dedicated 1 GE circuits between CH, CZ, DE, IT and PL, with ES and GR connecting via existing production circuits using Ethernet over MPLS. • Will offer virtualised resources such as routers and circuits using the ‘slice’ paradigm that can support multiple experiments in parallel. • A tool-bench will be developed to leverage existing virtualisation and network control mechanisms, and extend these to support multi-domain management and monitoring. • Testbed planned to be operational in late-2008, initially offering VLANs supported by L2 MPLS. • Plan is to offer usage of facilities to NRENs and other FP7 ‘FIRE’ projects.