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TERENA General Assembly
Bruges, Belgium
22 May 2008
Christoph Graf
TERENA VP Technical Programme
[email protected]
TERENA Technical Programme
Update
Overview
› TAC update:
› SIAs, “green matters”, “free” services
› Task Forces
› TF-CSIRT, TF-ECS, TF-EMC2, TF-Mobility, TFStorage
› TERENA Projects:
› Using SIP with NRENhanced Communications Server
› External Projects:
› FEDERICA
› SEEREN2 and NoAH ending 2008
› Services:
› TACAR, SCACH, SCS, TI
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TAC Update
Current Special Interest Areas
(SIAs)
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Lower Layer Technologies
Security
Middleware
Mobility
Voice and Video Collaboration
Grid
› In addition, Campus and End-to-End issue
coordination are challenges that have an impact
across all SIAs.
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Proposed new Special Interest
Areas (SIAs)
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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 SIAs. <sentence about grid
collaboration spanning many SIAs>
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Middleware Achievements...
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eduroam
› Well beyond our borders
RadSec
› Driving industry trends
TACAR
› First stakes in the Grid camp
SCS
› Almost universal service
SCHAC
› Bologna and more
REFEDS gatherings
› Re-focusing federation interoperation
...And Focus Problems
› Too narrow in TF-Mobility
› Most development work has moved to GN2
› Need to find new topics to concentrate on
› Too wide in TF-EMC2
› Lots of topics to discuss in meetings
› Insufficient time for in-depth discussion
› And even more activities wanting consideration
Across the Stack
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The Application
The Middleware
The Network
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
“Free services”: Intro
› Thinking of:
› Searching?
› VoIP and video?
› Mail?
› Collaboration?
› Are you now thinking of:
› Google, Skype, Microsoft, Yahoo...?
› Of course you are...
› And even if you aren’t...
› ... our customers are
Possible strategies
› Withdraw (make -> buy/outsource):
› Searching/indexing/digitising
› VoIP/video?
› Compete (balanced strengths/weaknesses):
› Mail
› Niche (very community specific strengths):
› AAI (strength: trust framework)
› Collaborate/partnering (complementary strengths and
weaknesses):
› PWLAN
› Collaboration services (our asset: AAI)?
› Controlling/enabling/selling access to our community:
› BBC, MSDN AA via AAI, commercial IPTV
› Maybe others...
Questions
› Are we recognising our potential?
› 40M end users
› Emerging trust infrastructure eases trusted
interaction with our users
› Network monopoly
› Shuldn’t we try to:
› Actively seek partnering/collaboration
opportunities with the relevant players
› And if yes, which roles on which layers?
› Campus, NREN, TERENA
Vision (to discuss further, made up
after the TAC)
› Let’s build an API enabling relevant
third parties to interact with the
academic community in Europe:
› Leveraging on our assets: users,
network, trust
› Maximising the benefits to our
users
› ... and keeping us in the loop!
Task-forces, Projects, Services
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 2008
› Task Force Chair: Gorazd Božič -> Lionel Ferrette
› Task Force Secretary: Kevin Meynell, TERENA
› In the process of being rechartered
› Services:
› Trusted Introducer (TI), TRANSITS courses
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IRT object in RIPE database
Open-source incident handling system
Security toolkit training (with GN2 JRA2)
CSIRT exercises (with ENISA)
Slide 19
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
› Participants: ~10 organisations
› Activities:
› Preconfigured virtual machine
(Debian/Vmware) running OpenSER, Asterisk
and GNUgk (of potential use within GN2 SA6)
› Working on architecture for trusted peerings
(SPIT), plans for test bed & testing
Slide 20
TERENA Project: Manual for NRENhanced
Communications Server
› Jumpstarting SIP playground with NREN
goodies (nrenum.net, GDS)
› Running period: March 2008 - October 2008
› Contractor: Erik Dobbelsteijn, TWIYO
› TERENA contact person: Peter Szegedi
› Activities:
› Input: preconfigured virtual machine (Debian/Vmware)
running OpenSER, Asterisk and GNUgk (done)
› Output: manual
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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
› Activity level: HIGH
› Number of participants 40-45
› Active members 20-25
› Activities/achievements:
› Directories, Schema, PKI, Identity Federations, etc.
› Supporting SCHAC, SCS, TACAR
› Ad-hoc activities such as REFEDS
› Supporting EuroCAMP
› Engage close liaison with the Grid community
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Service:
› Schema Harmonisation Committee (SCHAC)
› Set-up in Feb 05 to harmonise schemas in the field
of high education
› Mainly aimed at inter-institutional data exchange
› Last release issued in December 2006
› defines a set of attributes to describe individuals in
the academic and research institutions
› contains also an appropriate LDAP profile in
appendix.
› Recent uptake by
› Finland, Italy, Norway, Spain, etc.
› GÉANT2 IdP, perfSONAR
› Australian Access Federation
SCS
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Number of certicates issued per Dec 2007
Number of institutions using SCS per Dec 2007
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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
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Chair: Klaas Wierenga, Cisco Systems
Secretary: Licia Florio, TERENA
Number of participants: ± 20
Active members: 15
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eduroam operational issues and deployment -> GN2
Network endpoint assessment for roaming
Sensor networks
Diagnostics
Location based services
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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
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TF-Storage
› Investigate storage services / storage as a service in the
NREN world
› Running period: February 2008 - February 2010
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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
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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
› 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)
› Activities:
› ‘Early FEDERICA User Requirements’ submitted (NA2)
› Basic FEDERICA principles defined (JRA2)
› Core infrastructure up in Oct 2008 (initially 4 sites)
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