1. The Americas Grid Policy Management Authority TAGPMA Update Derek Simmel (delivered by Alan Sill) 30 th EUGridPMA Meeting Abingdon, UK January 13, 2014

2. TAGPMA Update Overview – TAGPMA Leadership – Current TAGPMA Membership – Communication Infrastructure – TAGPMA Conference Calls – Next meeting is TAGPMA 18 (IGTF All Hands) – Current work 2

3. TAGPMA Leadership Current Officers – Chair: Derek Simmel (PSC) dsimmel@psc.edu – Vice Chair: Scott Rea (DigiCert + REBCA) Scott@DigiCert.com – Secretary: Ale Stolk (ULAGrid) astolk@ula.ve 3

4. OrganizationCountryRespresentativeAP/RP DigiCertUSAScott ReaAP ESNetUSADhiva MurugananthamAP GridCanadaCanadaRoger ImpeyAP IBDS ANSPBrazilSergio LiettiAP InCommonUSAJim BasneyAP NCARUSASteve BeatyAP NCSAUSAJim BasneyAP NERSCUSAShreyas CholiaAP NICSUSAJohn WynkoopAP PSCUSADerek SimmelAP REUNAChileSandra JaqueAP SDSCUSAScott SakaiAP SENAMHIPeruGerardo JacomeAP UFFBrazilVinod RebelloAP ULAGridVenezuelaAlejandra StolkAP UNAMMexicoManuel QuinteroAP UNIANDESColombiaAndres HolguinAP UNLPArgentinaPaula VenosaAP CIDETYS / UTPPanamaQuerube UrriolaRP FNALUSAIrwin GainesRP OGFUSAAlan SillRP OSGUSAJim BasneyRP REBCAUSAScott ReaRP redCLARAChile/LACLuis A. NúñezRP WLCGSwitzerlandDave KelseyRP XSEDEUSAJim MarstellerRP Current TAGPMA Membership

5. 26 Members from North, Central and South America – Covering Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, U.S.A. and Venezuela. 22 IGTF Accredited CAs – 13 Classic Argentina:UNLPGrid Brazil:UFF BrGrid & UFF LACGrid, ANSPGrid Canada:GridCanada Chile:REUNA Colombia:UNIANDES Mexico:UNAM U.S.A.:DigiCert(2), DOEGrid (EUGridPMA), InCommon Venezuela:ULAGrid UNAM – 7 SLCS U.S.A.:NCSA (3), FermiLab, NERSC, PSC, NICS UTK – 2 MICS U.S.A.:NCSA, InCommon 5

6. Current TAGPMA Membership 3 CA accreditations in-process – 1 Classic pending CP/CPS (SENAMHI – Peru) – 2 MICS pending CP/CPS (SDSC, NCAR – US) – InCommon CA – Operational Review 8 Relying Parties – (CIDETYS/UTP, FNAL, LCG, OGF, OSG, REBCA, redCLARA, XSEDE) New members – OGF voted in as Relying Party member Prospective members – Ecuador and Costa Rica in becoming AP members – Ohio Supercomputer Center CA for State of Ohio K-12/Univ 6

7. Communication Infrastructure IGTF Website http://www.igtf.net TAGPMA Website http://www.tagpma.org – Hosts static, public information & profiles – Overhaul still way overdue  TAGPMA twiki http(s)://tagpma.es.net/wiki – hosts in-process TAGPMA documents, notes, tutorials etc. – Contains agenda and minutes from monthly meetings Mailing lists tagpma-general, tagpma-private – Mailing lists have been moved over to Google Apps for Education, also enabling Calendar, Docs & Sites – E-mail any issues direct to the Chair (dsimmel@psc.edu) 7

8. TAGPMA Conference Calls Regular Video Conference Calls are now Monthly, at 12noon Eastern (US) time on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. – Next call will be February 12, 2014 – Video arrangements: RedCLARA VC Espresso – Request for agenda items goes out ~1 week before the next call – The agenda is usually posted on tagpma-general e-mail list no later than 1 day before the meeting All IGTF members and prospective TAGPMA members are welcome to attend our TAGPMA meetings! 8

9. Current work 9 (1)Updated MICS profile to (v.1.3) add the following statement in Section 3.1 Identity vetting rules for the primary identity management system:... "On the Kantara Initiative Identity Assurance Framework Levels of Assurance scale [Kantara2010], Assurance Level 2 and higher are considered sufficient for MICS PKI identity vetting.” with the reference: [Kantara2010] Glade, B. (Ed.). “Identity Assurance Framework: Assurance Levels” Version 2.0 24 April 2010. Kantara Initiative. http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/download/attachments/41649275/ Kantara+IAF-1200-Levels+of+Assurance.pdf (2)Reviewed IOTA Profile and added commentary and questions for review (commentary provided in attached Word document IOTA-Secured-Infra-AP-1.0-tagpma20140108.doc)