TERENA Technical Programme Update

TERENA Technical Programme Update TERENA GA Meeting Vilnius, Lithuania4 June 2010 Christoph GrafTERENA VP Technical Programme christoph.graf@switch.ch

Agenda • Report on the TAC meeting • Progress report • Discussion Slide2

Report on the TAC meeting • Revision of the Special Interest Areas • Harmonisation of R&E federations and interaction with other communities - Mikael Linden • Update on the GN3 Green Study, possible complementary work in TERENA - Victor Reijs • Update on Research Information Systems - Ligia Ribeiro Slide3

Special Interest Areas • Current Special Interest Areas (SIA) adopted in mid-2008 and up for review now • SIAs should cover those areas, where there is interest to share experience and co-ordinate efforts and potentially to collaborate • Overlap with the areas of activity in GÉANT is therefore to be expected… • … but the goals and the style of work are quite different!

Special Interest Areas(adopted mid-2008) The Technical Programme focuses on Special Interest Areas (SIA) recommended by the TERENA membership • 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

Some reasoning (1/3) • Lower-layer technologies (Layers 0-4)-> Network Services and Technology • Shift of emphasis from development and technology testing towards organisational aspects and best practice • Less network research, but continuing to support network research • Shift towards research on service provisioning and delivery • Includes on-campus and off-campus mobility • Security • Still valid, no proposed changes • Middleware • Liaisons with other communities to be added • Need for attribute harmonisation with grids to be emphasised

Some reasoning (2/3) • Mobility • No longer needed as SIA • Most contents covered by “Middleware”, some by “Network services Technology” • Voice and Video Collaboration-> Media Services • No active TF devoted to voice and video collaboration, but a number of email lists (erupting every now and then) linked to an active community • Community focus shifting from live media and v-conf towards web-based collaboration, webcasting and video-on-demand

Some reasoning (3/3) • Virtualisation-> Virtualisation and cloud services • Introduced two years ago to cover resource virtualisation (e.g. TF-storage and FEDERICA) • Internal clouds for virtualisation and commercial clouds for outsourcing are both getting more attention • 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 • Still valid

Proposed update to the Special Interest Areas The Technical Programme focuses on Special Interest Areas (SIA) recommended by the TERENA membership • Network Services and Technology • Security • Middleware • Media Services • Virtualisation and cloud services • 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

R&E federations don't live in an isolated world • Standards bodies • OASIS (SAML 2.0), Kantara (SAML profiles) • Vendors • Microsoft (ADFS 2.0), others (commercial implementations) • Other Internet identity models • OpenID, InfoCard, user-centric identity • E-Government (citizen authentication) • eID cards, STORK(EU), Thematic network on eID • Policy makers • Our work is lacking visibility and credibility outside the R&E community! • TERENA’s REFEDs activity to liaise with other communities

2% and 98% • IT sector responsible for ~2% of total GHG emissions • 7% a year growth in data centre emissions • BAU (business as usual) not an option • What about the other 98%? • Mitigation of a further 7% is possible by 2020

GHG audits: breakdown

Other NRENs • EENet and JANET have environmental policies • CARnet members do energy-efficiency studies • SURFnet have conducted a comprehensive energy audit • CANARIE are funding the GreenStar Network (GSN) project… • …

What we need • Targets for reducing GHG • Ideas on monitoring and control of emissions • Compare and contrast audit results • Experience of green criteria in procurement • Use cases of mitigation effects of ICT • Build experience on GHG administration and credit trade • Green requirements from clients?

Forum or task force? • Plenty of scope for a forum; share ideas • But also real objectives for a TF • Common core business of NRENs leads to synergies • Develop and share tools like climate accounting template • Strength in the market in joint measures and assertions • NRENs tell a good environmental story

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Challenges for NRENs • Linking activities • COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) • http://coar-repositories.org/ • OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) • http://www.openaire.eu/ • EUROCris (CERIF) • http://www.eurocris.org/ • … • SaaS for repositories? • Publications, data, … • Storage • Grid? • Digital preservation • Interoperability

Agenda • Report on the TAC meeting • Progress report • Discussion Slide22

Progress Report • TF-CSIRT • Chair: Lionel Ferette, BELNET • Secretary: Kevin Meynell • TF-EMC2 • Chair: Diego Lopez, RedIRIS • Secretary: Brook Schofield • TF-Mobility and Network Middleware • Chair: Klaas Wierenga, Cisco Systems • Secretary: Brook Schofield • TF-Media • Chair: Andy Zbinden, SWITCH • Secretary: Peter Szegedi • TF-Storage • Chair: Jan Meijer, UNINETT • Secretary: Peter Szegedi • Outlook

TF-CSIRT 3 x 2-day events per year ~ 70-80 participants. • General meeting, informational seminar & closed session. • Occasional workshops (e.g. IRT object, RTIR) • One joint meeting with FIRST per year (150+ participants in Jan 2010). Trusted Introducer has grown to 70 accredited and 134 listed CSIRTs. Approx. 40 teams attend each meeting. • Future: Certification to assess and improve CSIRT maturity. Provided advice and feedback on GN2/GN3 security activities. Improvements were made to RTIR software (e.g. PGP integration). Provided tutors and material for TRANSITS workshops (2+ per year). • Future: Develop Advanced TRANSITS modules. The biggest achievement is that TF-CSIRT has become the pre-eminent forum for European CSIRTs to communicate and collaborate.

TF-EMC2 • Mature activities spinning off • REFEDS getting higher momentum • TACAR embraced by GÉANT • Results consolidating • The SCHAC schema • Strong connections with EUNIS and RS3G • ECAM • New areas opening • Reputation within and beyond e-mail • The “domestication” idea • And identity! • SAML, user-centric, Virtual Organizations,…

TF-Mobility - Mobility & Network Middleware • Achievements • Succesful DNSsec meetings in Malaga, Rome and Vienna • RadSec drafts (RADIUS over TLS and RADIUS over TCP) making progress in IETF • Moonshot, SASL-SAML work (with TF-EMC2) core of work of proposed IETF WG that merges SASL and GSS-API WG’s • eduroam taking firm ground in US, initiatives in Africa and South-America • Issues • Broadening of scope leads to less coherence • Grand Works™ (like eduroam) not yet emerging

TF-Media - Media Management and Distribution • Objectives • Description of existing multimedia management platforms and metadata and their related processes in Europe, and fostering collaborations where possible and useful. • Work so far • A formal liaison with Opencast • An informal liaison with Europeana • A Wiki to assess current media management platforms • A questionnaire to ask NRENs and universities to describe their systems

TF-Storage • Objectives • data storage, data management, cloud storage • forum for exchanging and promoting ideas, experience and knowledge • fostering collaborations • Work Items • forum/meeting ground • overview of national activities • File sharing (filesender.org) • storage performance measurement • keep non-web pressure on AAI federations

TF-Storage • Achievements • Established an NREN/eScience storage community • regular 1 day conference, core of people visiting • Sharing information and ideas • FileSender collaborative development • Storage measurement cookbook • AAI pressure • Issues • sharing data in an easy way • not enough concrete collaboration, yet

Outlook • Task Force rechartering due 2010: • TF-Storage up for approval • TF-CSIRT due now • TF-EMC2 due autumn 2010 • TF-Mobility due autumn 2010 • Preparation for new Task Force • TF-NOC Draft Terms of Reference under discussion • New ideas for activity of Terena of some type • TF-Green being discussed • E-Qual? • Usage of webconferencing (incl. Adobe connect)? • Student mobility (Bologna etc.)?

TERENA Technical Programme Update