TERENA Technical Programme Update

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