TERENA Technical Programme Update TERENA GA Meeting Vilnius, Lithuania 4 June 2010 Christoph Graf TERENA VP Technical Programme

Slide 2 Agenda ›Report on the TAC meeting ›Progress report ›Discussion

Slide 3 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

Slide 4 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

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! Slide 5

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 Slide 6

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 Slide 7

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 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 Slide 8

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 Slide 9

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 Slide 10

Slide 11 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

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

Slide 13 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

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

Slide 19 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

Linking activities – COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) – OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) – EUROCris (CERIF) – … SaaS for repositories? – Publications, data, … Storage – Grid? Digital preservation Interoperability Challenges for NRENs

Slide 22 Agenda ›Report on the TAC meeting ›Progress report ›Discussion

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 Slide 23

TF-CSIRT ›3 x 2-day events per year ~ 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 ›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 Slide 27

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 Slide 28

›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 TF-Storage

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.)?