TAGPMA Update Riga, 19 April 2010 David Kelsey Input from Roger Impey & Scott Rea

Current TAGPMA Membership 23 Members from North, Central and South America Covering Canada, US, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia. Two Catchall CAs cover the remaining countries. – 15 IGTF Accredited CAs 9 Classic – TACC - US, UFF BrGrid & UFF LACGrid - Brazil, UNLPGrid - Argentina, REUNA – Chile, ULAGrid – Venezuela, GridCanada, UNAM - Mexico. – NOTE: DOE Grid accredited by EUGridPMA 4 SLCS (NCSA x 2, FermiLabs, and NERSC - US) 2 MICS (NCSA and TACC - US) – 2 CAs pending accreditation, 2 more proposed & active 2 Classic pending (SENAMHI – Peru, UNIANDES - Colombia) 1 Classic proposed (ANSP – Br), 1 MICS proposed (SDSC – US) – 5 Relying Parties (OSG, TeraGrid, THEgrid, LCG, Dartmouth/HEBCA) Member in suspended status due to inactivity UVA (Jim Jokl) TAGPMA19 Apr 20102

TAGPMA F2F Meetings 10th F2F held in Banff, Canada on early October. Meeting was first face-2-face of all three regional PMA groups, TAGPMA, APGridPMA and EUGridPMA. (Host Roger Impey) 11th F2F planned for Lima, Peru – 27-29, May, 2010 (Host: Otto Huiman Carrasco ) 12 th F2F planned for Lubbock, Texas - Oct. 4-6, 2010 – (Host: Alan Sill) Next IGTF “All Hands” Meeting? Date/Location? – Was discussed at the last APGridsPMA meeting – One proposal is: joint with ISGC 2011 (Spring) in Taipei 19 Apr 20103TAGPMA

Update since Jan 2010 we approved the Robots Guidelines Private Key Protection: Vote on this at same time as the new MICS and SLCS incorporating the references(?) – Updating of the MICS and SLCS profiles is underway. The review of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center MyProxy CA CP/CPS is done, and we are about to do an electronic vote. The review of the CILogon Silver CA CP/CPS is proceeding, but we may have found a few problems that need the inCommon Silver policy to be updated. – Related to remote identity vetting 19 Apr 20104TAGPMA

Update (2) There are at least two, additional organisations requesting membership and accreditation: The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) 19 Apr 2010TAGPMA5

Update (3) There has been some discussion about the limits to growth of TAGPMA. More on this at the next face-2-face meeting in Lima. – 1 CA per country? US obviously has more than 1, but we have other "large" countries where it may be appropriate to have multiple (e.g. Brazil) 19 Apr 2010TAGPMA6

TAGPMA Conference Calls Fortnightly Video Conference Call are now on Wednesdays. – Next one is 21 April 2010, noon, Eastern time – Video arrangements: Video ESNet or GDS or phone # – The agenda is usually posted on tagpma-general the day before. Feel free to join meetings! Thanks 19 Apr 20107TAGPMA