1. Licia Florio Poznan, 5 June 2005 1 SCS Proposal Investigates the possibility to set up a service that offers popup-free cheap server-certificates against a flat-rate fee for educational and research organisations using their NREN as a service provider.

2. Licia Florio Poznan, 5 June 2005 2 Who is part of SCS TERENA will sign the contract on behalf of the NRENs ACOnet CARNet CESNET RENATER DFN RedIRIS SURFnet SWITCH UNI-C

3. Licia Florio Poznan, 5 June 2005 3 SCS Proposal Update Timescale May 05 Sign agreement between each of the NRENs and TERENA. June 05 Start the process to procure the service November 05: Sign the contract with a commercial CA, selected through the tender (if any). December 05: Service up and running November 06: Service evaluation and financial model revision. Possible extension for another year.

4. Licia Florio Poznan, 5 June 2005 4 Where we are Contracts sent to 1 month ago Signatures received by most of the 9 NRENs Negotiations with CAs started: Comodo, SWISSSign, RSA/Diginotar, Globalsign Looking into tenders issues

5. Licia Florio Poznan, 5 June 2005 5 Next steps Next week to know about tender …………….