1. Welcome to the Grid Middleware Workshop ☆ Joint workshop of Grid WG and Middleware WG Middleware Working Group at a glance 20 th APAN (Taipei, Aug. 2005) –National Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure and NREN (proposed session) 21 st APAN (Tokyo, Jan. 2006) –Middleware Workshop (full day) –Middleware Working Group is approved 22 nd APAN (Singapore, today) –Grid Middleware Workshop

2. Where is middleware?

3. Two Middleware worlds converge/overlap GRID environmentsHigher education Federated AAA (Shibboleth) – Source: MAMS Wildfire GRID workflow - Source: Francis Tang, Bioinformatics Institute, A-STAR, Singapore

4. Grid-Middleware Workshop Objective A specific focus on GRID middleware and identity and access management issues. 1.GRID authentication, authorisation and accounting; 2.Identity Access Management; 3.Public Key Infrastructures and the GRID; 4.The convergence of GRID and Higher education access controls; 5.Support for location independent access controls to the GRID to support roaming users or access via remote systems.

5. 22nd APAN Singapore Grid-Middleware Workshop 19 th July 2006 14:00 － 14:10 Welcome AddressWelcome Address 14:10 – 14:30 “Federated access to Grid resources: SAML using Shibboleth”Federated access to Grid resources: SAML using Shibboleth –Keith Hazelton University of Wisconsin, USA 14:30 － 14:50 “Australia’s Middleware Action Plan and Strategy Project (MAPS)”Australia’s Middleware Action Plan and Strategy Project (MAPS) –Patricia McMillan University of Queensland, Australia 14:50 – 15:05 “Grid security in NAREGI project”Grid security in NAREGI project –Shinichi Mineo National Institute of Informatics, Japan 15:05 – 15:20 “Introduction of NAREGI-CA”Introduction of NAREGI-CA –Toshiyuki Kataoka National Institute of Informatics, Japan 15:50 – 16:20 “Using OGRO to implement OCSP certificate validation in the Globus Toolkit 4”Using OGRO to implement OCSP certificate validation in the Globus Toolkit 4 –Jesus Luna, Oscar Manso, Manel Medina Technical University of Catalonia (Computer Architecture Department) Barcelona, Spain. 16:20 – 16:50 “K* Grid Middleware package KM1-R1”K* Grid Middleware package KM1-R1 –Jaegyoon Hahm, Grid Computing Research Team, Supercomputing Center, KISTI 16:50 – 17:20 “European efforts towards a global AA infrastructure”European efforts towards a global AA infrastructure –Diego Lopez RedIRIS, Spain