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TERENA GA - Zagreb May 22-23 2003 Claudio Allocchio - VP Technical Programme

The TERENA Technical

Programme

Claudio AllocchioVP Technical ProgrammeTERENA GA - Zagreb May 22-23 2003


The Terms of Reference (1)The scope of the TERENA Technical Programme is:

• To supports joint European work in developing, evaluating, testing, integrating and promoting new networking, middleware and application technologies.

• To bring together technical specialists from TERENA member organisations and the wider European research networking community.

• To organise topical workshops and ad-hoc meetings to exchange experiences and information, and to plan for joint activities.

• To liaises with similar activities in other continents.


The Terms of Reference (2)

Inside the Technical Programme we have the

• Technical Advisory Council,

• TERENA Technical Committee,

• a number of Special Interest Areas,

• Task Forces,• Projects.


Technical Advisory Council

The TAC consists of representatives of the TERENA member organisations (= the senior technical managers of those organisations), the Task Force leaders, the VP Technical Programme, the Chief Technical Officer and the Secretary General.

The TAC is a main instrument for the TERENA member organisations to steer the direction of the technical work under the TERENA umbrella.


Technical Advisory Council

The TAC meets at least once a year to:• Review the progress of the Technical

Programme• Advise on the future direction of the

Technical Programme• Propose new initiatives• Exchange information about networking

activities• Propose TTC membersAt least once every two years, the TAC also reviews the

Special Interest Areas (done on in Limerick, June 2002, discussed on Monday May 19th 2003)


TERENA Technical Committee

The TTC co-ordinates and supervises the Technical Programme. It has the functions to:

• Create and dissolve Task Forces• Consider project proposals and

recommend to the TEC whether they should be approved as TERENA projects and, if applicable, whether they should receive TERENA funding

• Assess the progress of Task Forces and projects


Special Interest Areas

The TEC may create a maximum of six Special Interest Areas, usually based on the recommendation of the TAC. The Special Interest Areas

• determine the focus of the TERENA Technical Programme

• offer a forum for discussion and exchange of information

• provide a platform for creating new Task Forces and projects


Task Forces and ProjectsA Task Force is a focused group with a specific

charter, which defines its objectives, its lifetime and the deliverables that the group will produce

A Minor Project is a limited activity that produces specific deliverables within a few months and that is (partially) funded directly from TERENA’s own resources

A Major Project is a larger activity covering a longer period. Major projects are funded by additional contributions from TERENA member organisations and possibly other sources

An External Project is an activity in which TERENA staff members themselves take an active part and that is co-funded by third parties such as the EU


Lower Layers

• TF-NGN• EC Projects:

– 6NET– 6LINK– SCAMPI– SEEREN


TF-NGN (1)

• TF-NGN investigates the suitability of advanced networking technologies for future implementation in research networks in Europe. The work includes the piloting of new services on GÉANT.

• Chair: Roberto Sabatino, DANTE

• Large number of activity areas (among others):– intra/inter-domain Network Monitoring Infrastructure

including the definition and organisation of a Performance Enhancement Response Team (PERT)

– Optical networking– Multicast– IPv6 deployment


TF-NGN (2)

• Optical Networking activities led by Victor Reijs, HEANet• Looking for an international testbed, creation of the

ASTON group and FP6 Expression of Interest:– Transport at 40+ Gbit/s– Work on Bandwidth on Demand– 10GE over long distance

• Regular updates on national developments and experience with optical equipment and dark fibre

• Provide significant contribution to SERENATE study on equipment for Next Generation Networking


6NET

• Very large FP5 project for a large-scale international IPv6 testbed. January 2002 – December 2004. Total estimated budget 17 million euro.

• Led by Cisco Systems, about 30 participants including many NRENs

• To build a native IPv6-based network with both static and mobile components in order to gain experience of IPv6 deployment and migration from existing IPv4-based networks. To test a variety of new IPv6 services and applications, as well as interoperability with legacy applications

TERENA’s role:• Leading the workpackage on dissemination and exploitation of results

• Maintaining the 6NET website (IPv6 enabled): http://www.6net.org

• Organising workshops (Joint 6NET-Euro6IX workshop, Limerick 5 June 2002, next one 21 May 2003 in Zagreb)


6LINK

• Small accompanying measure in FP5 to support the IPv6 cluster activities. March 2002 – February 2005. Total estimated budget 1 million euro.

• The project is led by BT Exact, other partners are Telscom, T-Nova, University of Southampton, Consulintel, University College London, Polytechnical University of Madrid, Motorola, DANTE, TERENA, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

TERENA’s role:

• Contribution to IPv6 Cluster meeting, last one at Madrid Global IPv6 Summit, May 2003

http://www.6link.org


SCAMPI (1)

• To develop and test a scalable monitoring platform for the Internet, to enable, accelerate and promote the development of new measurement tools for improving network services and networking research in Europe and beyond (network measurement at 10+ Gb/s)

• April 2002 – September 2004. Total estimated budget 5.5 million euro.

• led by TERENA, other participants are: IMEC, FORTH, Leiden University, Netikos, UNINETT, CESNET, FORTHNET, 4PLUS, Siemens

• Project review held in April 2003

TERENA’s role:

• Leading the workpackage on project management and dissemination

• Maintaining the SCAMPI website: http://www.ist-scampi.org

• Organising workshops and BoFs (1st Workshop was held in Amsterdam in January 2003, a BoF was held on May 21st 2003 in Zagreb)


SCAMPI (2)

• Development of a standard Monitoring API (MAPI). – define a set of monitoring calls/primitives that will be collectively called as

MAPI.

• Monitoring applications using this MAPI will be able to run on top of any monitoring environment without needing to be rewritten.

• The MAPI will enable communication of specific monitoring requirements to the underlying network monitoring system.

• Scalability through special purpose hardware and parallelism.• The SCAMPI system is composed of a regular PC coupled with a

Hardware Monitor connected to the system's I/O (e.g. PCI) bus. Different instantiations will require different hardware monitors:

– Low-end monitoring systems will probably use a regular network interface.– High-end systems may employ a special-purpose adaptor, that has the

computing capacity to not only capture packets, but also to process them and perform some simple (but fast) monitoring functionalities.


SEEREN (1)

• Accompanying Measure to support South-Eastern European Research & Education Networking. December 2002 – June 2004. Total estimated budget about 1.3 million euro.

• GRNET (Co-ordinator), HUNGARNET, RoEduNet, DANTE, TERENA; other participants: NRENs of Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYROM, Serbia-Montenegro

• Network connectivity procurement ongoing. PC meeting in Zagreb on 19 May 2003.

TERENA`s role:

• Contribute to analyse technical & operational requirements

• Contribute to dissemination activities, brochures, workshops, liaisons

http://www.seeren.org


SEEREN (2)

• NATO Advanced Networking Workshop: “Policy issues for NRENs in South East Europe”– 7-9 September 2003 in Varna, Bulgaria.– Targets NRENs, Telcos, Governments and

funding bodies• In collaboration with SEEREN and CEENET.• Detailed programme and speakers being

discussed now.


Videoconferencing and streaming

• TF-NETCAST• IP Telephony Cookbook

H.323 Videoconferencing:

Service Coordinator Training, 18 May 2003 in Zagreb


TF-NETCAST

• Prepare the creation of a portal for live-streaming announcements and to investigate the possible extension of the portal to an academic channel for live-streams and video-on-demand.

– Conduct a survey of the state of national efforts in producing and delivering streaming-media content in academia in European countries, and of the (users') needs for an international effort in this area;

– Create an announcements portal, by developing metadata, portal software, policies etc. into a working prototype of an announcements portal;

– Promote the production of high-quality content;

– Study the feasibility of a project for setting up a live-streaming infrastructure;

– Develop a common metadata model and to study the feasibility of setting up a video-on-demand portal;

– Propose a model for an academic netcasting channel.


IP Telephony Cookbook (1)

Main partners:

• University of Pisa, TZI University of Bremen, FhG Fokus

Project contributors:

• CESNET, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, GRNET, SURFnet

Project size:

• 11 months duration with a total of 11 person-months.

• 51,000 Eur funding from TERENA and TERENA member organisations.

• It is finally on its way !


IP Telephony Cookbook (2)

• Overview of available technologies and trends for the near future• Models/scenarios for deploying IP telephony and building a IP

Telephony infrastructure• Guidelines on:

– IP Telephony protocols and basic services set up– how to set-up advanced services– how to connect an IP Telephony island to a wider “dialing plan”

• Experiences on interoperability of IP Telephony equipment• Information about IP telephony projects in Europe• Regulatory and legal aspects


Middleware

• TF-CSIRT• Projects and services

– Trusted Introducer Service– TRANSITS project– PAPI/Permis integration

• Projects on Directories– Adding certificates to OpenLDAP– Directory Schema Registry

• TF-AACE


TF-CSIRT

• TF-CSIRT provides a platform for information exchange and collaboration between Computer Security Incident Response Teams from NRENs, industry and government. Very active Task Force with a large membership. Some 30 CSIRTs actively participate, meetings have some 50 attendees. Latest meeting held in Zagreb on 23-24 January 2003, next one in Warsaw 29-30 May 2003 .

• The task force has established a working group on best-current-practice in CSIRTs to assist in the establishment of new CSIRTs

• Clearinghouse for incident handling tools http://chiht.dfn-cert.de

• Liaise on insertion of an IRT object in the RIPE database.

• Provides input to IETF inch working group on standardisation of Incident Object Description and Exchange Format (IODEF)

• ECSIRT.net - Pilot proget to test IODEF on the field


Trusted introducers

• TI provides a form of accreditation of CSIRTs, thereby assisting the development of a ‘Web of Trust’. Currently 31 CSIRTs accredited (“level 2” teams) and 89 listed (known teams, “level 0”).

• Started as a pilot project The Trusted Introducer became a permanent service starting from 1 September 2002, with TERENA providing clearinghouse function.

• A meeting of accredited CSIRTs was organised in Syros, Greece on 26 September 2002 .

http://www.ti.terena.nl/


TRANSITS project

• FP5 project to provide TRAining of Network Security Incident Teams Staff. Runs for three years from 1 July 2002.

• Develops and maintain course materials to train staff members of new CSIRTs and new staff members of existing CSIRTs. EU funding covers logistics costs, expenses of teachers and includes small budget to support participants from “poor” countries.

Project participants are TERENA and UKERNA

Next scheduled Training Course:

• Warsaw, Poland from 27-28 May 2003


PAPI/Permis Integration Proposal

University of Salford (UK), RedIris (ES), University of Malaga (ES)

To inegrate PAPI (a WEB based communication infrastructure to carry user's authentication and authorisation credentials from home server to remote site) and Permis (a Policy driven authorisation infrastructure based on X.509 certificates);

Permis will take the access control decisions and the resources site, and PAPI will carry the user's credentials among different sites.


Projects on Directories

• Several projects where launched in the context of TF-LSD, the task force investigating the usability of LDAPv3 as a base for a wide range of Internet services. TF-LSD ended in December 2003, results are available on the TERENA web site.

Project “Adding Certificate Retrieval to OpenLDAP”

• Carried out by the University of Salford, from September 2001 and approaching now final deliverables and results

Project “Directory Schema Registry”

• Carried out by DAASI International on 1 August 2002, runs until summer 2003


Open LDAP project

• Recommendations of IETF PKIX working group on to overcome limitations of LDAPv3 when using PKI

• OpenLDAP implementation:– Retrieve attribute values– Certificate matching rules

• LDAP client/s to demonstrate functionality and usability • Design of an LDAP X.509 Parsing Server (XPS).


Directory Schema project

• A directory Schema is the data model defining object classes, attribute types, syntax and matching rules.

• Setting up a LDAP Schema registry:– Search/web browsing interface– MIME-types based interface for submission

of new schemas– Business model for service sustainability


TF-AACE

• Coordinates the deployment of Authentication, Authorisation and other security services among European NRENs and liaise with Internet2 Middleware initiative and Global Grid Forum.

• Meeting in Stockholm in November 2002, preceded by a TF-AACE workshop and followed by the Nordic GNOMIS workshop.

• Last meeting 18 May 2003 in Zagreb.

Work items include:

• Defining interoperability requirements for European academic PKIs, including guidelines for PKI deployment at NRENs, online questionnaire

• Defining common requirements for inter-institutional authentication and authorisation, providing a framework for harmonising NREN initiatives

• Investigate existing initiatives on common identity on the Internet (e.g. Microsoft Passport, Liberty Alliance, etc.)


Mobility

• TF-Mobility


TF-Mobility

• Define and test an inter-NREN roaming architecture, evaluate mobile equipment and software as well as next generation mobile technology for handovers and roaming.

• Last Meeting 18 May 2003 in Zagreb.

Work items include:• Glossary of terms• Study available AuthN & AuthZ techniques

– Web-based, RADIUS+802.1x, VPNs• Study support of next generation equipment for MobileIP (v4

and v6)• Set up a testbed for inter-NREN AuthN & AuthZ• Liaise with TF-AACE and TF-NGN


GRID

• TERENA disseminates information to bridge the GRID and the European research networking community

• Sessions on GRID at TNC2002 and TNC2003

• TERENA staff closely following developments, e.g. in Global Grid Forum and events (iGRID 2002), exchanging information and knowledge

• Participate in proposed FP6 GRID initiative (EGEE) as one of the two information dissemination major partners


Knowledge transfer

• GNRT: Guide to Network Resource Tools

• COM-REN: the NREN Compendium• TERENA Networking Conference


GNRT

• 3rd Edition available on the web:http://www.terena.nl/gnrt

• 4th Edition now in final assembly phase, includes sections on:– Searching for information– Web Technology– Web publishing– Protecting users and information– Collaboration and sharing information– VoIP– Network tools for user


FP6 New Projects

• EGEE– TERENA project partner for Dissemination– Proposal submitted in early May 2003

• Optical Networking– TERENA proposed as partner for Dissemination– Proposals due for September 2003– Informal contacts with GARDEN, GRANDE, …

• GEANT next generation– TERENA as partner in the project (for Dissemination?

For other technical activities?)– Proposal due for September 2003

• Other FP6 projects:– 6NEXUS (Network of Excellence for IPv6) (dissemination

and workshops)

– MOME (Monitoring and Measurement cluster) (project coordinator)


EGEE (1)

• The EGEE "vision"To integrate current national, regional and thematic

Grid efforts, in order to create a seamless European Grid Infrastructure for the support of the European Research Area

• The EGEE "mission"– To deliver production level Grid services– To carry out a professional Grid Middleware re-

engineering– To ensure an outreach and training effort which

can proactively market Grid Services to new research communities in Academia and Industry


EGEE (2)

• Participants in the proposal– Coordinated by CERN– ~70 organisations, including TERENA,

DANTE, NRENs and many academic and research organisations

– Contributions by another ~30 organisations

• Internal funding model for the project:– 50% of resources from the project– 50% of resources from the participants


EGEE (3)

TERENA, Dissemination (NA2) coordinator, (with NeSC,UK, support), with main tasks as:

• Provide a lively, up to date and technically informative WEB site (entry point to EGEE)

• Provide Mailing Lists and collaborative WEB tools• Organisation of Project conferences (twice a year) and

workshops/showcases• Coordinate EGEE presentations, publications,…• Internal liaison between TERENA TF and project

activities and Grid activities• Visits and outreach to industrial sites• Preparation of publications and newsletters


EGEE (4)

• The TEC, following last GA discussion and advice, believes it is a strategic move to belong to a project such as EGEE:

– To help coordinating between Grid and NRENs communities (coordination and cross dissemination), with positive effects also on Campus issues

– To create synergy for all other possible FP6 projects where TERENA is being contacted as dissemination partner


EGEE (5)

• It is still very difficult to assess, at this time, the actual financial effect of the total of proposed FP6 projects where TERENA could be involved;

• all the other projects which contacted TERENA propose a 100% funded model for TERENA activities;

• we cannot have real figures for these projects before September 2003;

• The EGEE project proposal was submitted on May 6th 2003;

• if accepted, contract signing in October 2003;• activities are likely to start in January 2004.


EGEE (6)

• The TEC has carefully evaluated the finacial aspects of the EGEE proposal:

– the resources required for the TERENA activities are estimated in the project as 4 FTEs

– the project will pay for 2 FTEs, 400 Keur for 2 years (TERENA contributes the other 2 FTEs - our 50% contribution which is included in our budget)

– the project will pay an additional 50 Keur for other TERENA specific costs

– the costs for the 4 EGEE conferences, organised by TERENA, will be met by an attendance fee

Total income for 2 years: 450 Keur


EGEE (7)

Based on rough "pessimistic" estimated actual costs for TERENA

FINAL BALANCE: -90-140 Keur for 2 years, without any synergy with other projects and activities


EGEE (8)Conclusions:• We are using TERENA's reserves to

temporarily cover some risk over the next two years

• We believe that this risk will be minimised if we also become involved in similar 100% funded activities for other FP6 projects, and other synergies

• The TEC believes in October the whole picture will be clear enough for real final figures

• The TEC is NOT considering to ask for an increase of membership fees for this.

• It is the GA decision to maintain the reserves at an adequate level in case some forecast prove false


Optical Networking (1)

• ASTON white paper– http://www.terena.nl/tech/projects/testbed/NREN-WhitePaper-v1.0.pdf

• Activities– Optical infrastructure – Bandwidth on demand – 40+ Gbit/s transmission capacity – Simpler (than SDH) data link transport – Routing model – Network monitoring and management

multi-domain multi vendor interoperability


Optical Networking (2)

• GARDEN project proposal– Discussion led by CISCO– TF-NGN expertise contribution– TERENA as disseminator

• GRANDE project proposal– Discussion led by T-Systems (and other

vendors)– TF-NGN expertise contribution– TERENA as disseminator


GÈANT next generation

• GÈANT next phase– Proposal submitted by NRENs– TERENA and DANTE as proposal

participants– TERENA role as disseminating partner?– TERENA to contribute other work items,

including TFs activities– TERENA and DANTE as members of the

NRENs Consortium


Other FP6 Projects

• 6NEXUS (Network of Excellence for IPv6)– TERENA contacted as dissemination partner and

workshop organiser

• MOME (Monitoring and Measurement cluster)

– TERENA contacted as projec coordinator


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