1. TERENA Technical Programme Update TERENA General Assembly Sofia, Bulgaria 24 October 2008 Christoph Graf TERENA VP Technical Programme christoph.graf@switch.ch

2. Overview ›Special Interest Areas (SIAs) ›Technical Task Forces: ›TF-CSIRT, TF-ECS, TF-EMC2, TF-Mobility, TF- Storage ›Technical Workshops: ›E2E Provisioning Workshop ›TERENA Small Projects: ›NREN Enhanced Communications Server (N-ECS) ›External Projects: ›FEDERICA ›Related Services: ›TACAR, SCHAC, SCS, TI Slide 2

3. SIAs › 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 3

4. Slide 4 TF-CSIRT ›THE networking platform for security teams in Europe ›Beyond NRENs (GovCERTs, ISPs) & liaising beyond Europe ›Currently 70+ participants at meetings 3 times/year ›Running period: 2000 - May 2010 ›Task Force Chair: Gorazd Božič -> Lionel Ferrette ›Task Force Secretary: Kevin Meynell, TERENA ›Was rechartered in May 2008 for another 2-year period, with new and revised activities. ›Services: ›Trusted Introducer (TI), TRANSITS courses ›Activities: ›IRT object in RIPE database ›Open-source incident handling system ›Security toolkit training (with GN2 JRA2) ›CSIRT exercises (with ENISA) ›Drill exercises ›Establishment of new CSIRTs

5. Slide 5 TF-ECS ›SIP and friends for voice, IM and presence ›From “SIP rules” to “connecting SIP islands” ›Running period: October 2006 - September 2008 ›Co-Chairs: Erik Dobbelsteijn, TWIYO, Fabio Vena, SWITCH ›Secretary: Peter Szegedi, TERENA ›Achievements: ›Fully functional SIP/H.323 open-source communication server for the NREN environment known as N-ECS (and its documentation) ›Future: ›Challenges in real-time video communications (plans to be rechartered) ›Workshop on Media Recording and Repository – follow up from BoF at TNC in Bruges

6. Slide 6 TERENA Project: Manual for ”NREN - Enhanced Communications Server” (N-ECS) ›Jumpstarting SIP playground with NREN goodies (nrenum.net, GDS) ›Running period: March 2008 - October 2008 ›Contractor: Erik Dobbelsteijn, TWIYO ›TERENA contact person: Peter Szegedi ›Achievement: ›Input: preconfigured N-ECS images (can be downloaded) ›Output: final text of the manual: ”TERENA SIP Handbook” (done, can be downloaded soon) ›http://www.terena.org/n-ecs/

7. Across the Stack The Network The Application The Middleware ›Bottom layer of the application ›PKI ›Directories and schemas ›{Con-, inter}federation ›Reputation ›Top layer of the network ›Mobility ›Network access ›Endpoint assessment ›Provider integration

8. TF-EMC2 ›The “middleware kitchen” with lots of food, many pots and many cooks with a common sense for good food ›Running period: October 2006 - September 2008 ›Chair: Diego Lopez, RedIRIS ›Secretary: Licia Florio, TERENA ›Number of participants 40-45 ›Active members 20-25 ›Activities/achievements: ›Spin-off projects/activities such as: SCHAC, SCS, TACAR, REFEDS ›Support for information exchange and tests in the area of PKI, Identity Federations, etc. ›Close liaison with the Grid community, libraries etc. ›New charter ready for discussion during the next TTC Meeting in November 2008 Slide 8

9. SCS Important Deadlines SCS=Server Certificate Service, started in early 2006, current contract expiring in January 2010, call for proposals published in September 2008 ›20 October 2008 - 12:00 hr - Deadline to request clarification on the Call for Proposals › 27 October 2008 - 14:00 hr - Deadline to provide answers to the questions and corrections to the proposal (if any) › 10 November 2008 - 12:00 hr - Deadline to submit proposals; › End of December 2008 - End of selection and awarding process › First half of January 2009 - Two-week period for objections › Mid January 2009 - Estimated contract date

10. TF-Mobility ›Roaming technologies, beyond eduroam & eduroam beyond Europe (travelling salesman: TF-Mobility, SA5: paperwork), discussion forum beyond NRENs ›Running period: October 2006 - September 2008 ›Chair: Klaas Wierenga, Cisco Systems ›Secretary: Licia Florio, TERENA ›Number of participants: ± 20 ›Active members: 15 ›Activities span over: ›eduroam operational issues and deployment -> GN2 ›Network endpoint assessment for roaming ›Sensor networks ›Diagnostics ›Location based services ›New charter ready for discussion during the next TTC meeting in November 2008 Slide 10

11. TF-Mobility main achievements ›Supporting eduroam deployments beyond GN2 borders ›Universities, Canada, APAN region ›Establishing liaisons with groups active in network endpoint assessment ›NAC (Network Admission Control) carried out by Cisco ›TNC (Trusted Network Connect) carried out within the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), ›NEA (Network EndPoint Assessment) - IETF ›Providing inputs for GN2/JRA5: ›RadSec ›DAMe Slide 11

12. Slide 12 TF-Storage ›Investigate storage services / storage as a service in the NREN world ›Running period: February 2008 - February 2010 ›Task Force Chair: Jan Meijer, UNINETT ›Task Force Secretary: Peter Szegedi, TERENA ›Num. of participants: ~20 organisations (~30-35 people) ›Active participants: ~8-10 organisations ›Activities: ›Now: Sharing information and ideas, building up the community, Poste Restante service development ›Up next: Storage system taxonomy (vocabulary for evaluating storage solutions), AAI

13. Slide 13 FEDERICA Project ›E-infrastructure for future Internet research ›Network, computing and virtualisation as building blocks (similar to GENI) ›Users: researchers in academia and private environment ›Running period: January 2008 - June 2010 ›Core infrastructure up in Oct 2008 (initially 4 sites) ›Project manager: Mauro Campanella, GARR ›20 participating organisations ›Kevin Meynell leader of NA2(user community), NA4(dissemination & training) ›Peter Szegedi leader of JRA2(future Internet architecture & end user control) ›TERENA Deliverables produced so far: ›‘Early FEDERICA User Requirements’ (NA2) ›‘Architectures for virtual infrastructures, new Internet paradigms and business models’ (JRA2)

14. E2E Provisioning Workshop - Establishing Lightpaths - ›Dates and venue ›1-2 December 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ›Topic ›Provisioning of end-to-end (E2E) lightpaths (i.e. Gigabit Ethernet circuits or even lambdas) between end-users’ sites via NRENs. ›In order to set up end-to-end connections, cooperation is necessary between NRENs, metropolitan, campus and local networks ›The workshop is focusing on the ‘last mile’ challenges, including technical issues (fibers, transmission technologies, interfacing, firewalls, NATs, etc.) as well as administrative issues (co-ordinations, processes, SLAs, co- location, etc.). ›Target audience ›campus or research centre network or system administrators, managers, IT specialists, as well as NREN representatives