Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest 1 TERENA Technical Programme Update Claudio Allocchio VP Technical Programme TERENA General Assembly Meeting 21 October 2005 Budapest

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General 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: Special Focus on Middleware and Grids

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest 3 Middleware Activities SCSServer Certificate Service SCHACSchema extensions TACARAnchor of Trust REFEDSFeds of Feds TF-EMC2Collaboration & Coordination TF-MobilityRoaming EuroCAMPCampus Middleware

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest 4 Pop-Up Problem If sever certificate is not trusted: Pop-up Manual Check required Many just accept

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General 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

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest 6 The SCS Solution Status Public Call Issued 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

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General 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

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest 8 Research & Education Federations (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: Links to policy statements Information on mandatory attributes distribution list

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest 9 2 nd EuroCAMP

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest 10 NRENs and GRIDs TERENA move from one specific Grid project NRENs interactions with Grid Community 1 st 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

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest 11 2 nd NREN Grids Workshop Monday 17 th 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

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest 12 2 nd NREN Grids Workshop Outcomes 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

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General Assembly, 21 October 2005, Budapest 13 2 nd NREN Grids Workshop 53 attendees Participation by 6 Grid projects High Satisfaction rating – 93% Presentations on line Report to be issues shortly 3 rd NREN Grids Workshop March/April 2006 Tight Focus Grid Community to be proactively invited Target some Campus delegates

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General 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, …)

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General 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 ?

Claudio Allocchio TERENA Technical Programme - Update General 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