TNC 2006, Catania TERENA Technical Programme 2006 update Claudio Allocchio VP Technical Programme

TNC 2006, Catania 3 rd NREN Grids Workshop Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP) 27/28 April 2006 Many NRENs & project represntatioin Focus – Grid Security Incident Handling Conclusions Use NREN CERTs Develop strong collaborative links between Grid Experts and NREN-CERTs 4 th Workshop will be in Fall

TNC 2006, Catania TF-EMC2 Active work items: AA-RR HelloSAML SCHAC TACAR REFEDs SCS

TNC 2006, Catania Other Task Forces Highlights TF-CSIRT Large event with FIRST, January 2006 TF-Mobility eduroam-in-a-box TF-VVC Recommendations published Evolving into next TF TF-NGN Working with GN2

TNC 2006, Catania External Project Overviews EGEE EGEE-I ended 31 March 2006 TERENA footprint inside Grid Community MOME Future of the database ? SEEREN2 Session at TNC2006 Training workshop – summer 2006 SEEFIRE Policy workshop – January 2006 Published: “Guidelines for the Deployment of Customer Empowered Fibre Infrastructure”

TNC 2006, Catania Challenges using videconference/collaborating tools for end users is starting to be easier, but NOT YET dial and play. H.323 is here; but still some twists needed to make it interoperate SIP sun is rising up, but “midday is a bit delayed” Collaboration tools old and new: is that the way forward? Need actions now for supporting service use Need research now to decide the way forward

TNC 2006, Catania Challenges convergence between grid and NRENs activity is touching fundamental topics Security: users’ credentials are (no) more an obstacle to grid deployment (?) Middleware: certificates are deploying, collaboration with NRENs digital identity federations on the start; the “last operator” is often the same person inside the campus/institution ECAM (do you have a mirror)? etc...

TNC 2006, Catania Challenges Network services and tools to non scientific users is starting Scientific users are curious to know what’s behind it Other users are afraid of what’s behind it, “don’t worry” support Strong cultural differences: build the bridge to understand each other (local cultural digital divide) Pioneers exists taking over the challenge Initiatives to support new user's communities medical, arts, humanities,… “the best choice” for them often is different from the one for scientific users

TNC 2006, Catania Challenges PR aspect: you get often much more out of it than out of a 40Gb speed record

TNC 2006, Catania Issues control plane for complex mixed networks Routed Switched Optical CBF and Backbone Central vs Users’ control Who knows what’s happening when something is going wrong? … anything we are just discovering now

TNC 2006, Catania Issues How to "scale up" NRENs services to bigger numbers Has a problem? Do our services management scale up to millions and millions of users? Are NRENs ready to handle with the well know high quality support thousands and thousands of “customers” ? NRENs offer more… How to keep it “more” and scale it up.

TNC 2006, Catania Questions?