TNC 2006, Catania

TERENA Technical Programme

2006 update

Claudio Allocchio

VP Technical Programme

TNC 2006, Catania

3rd NREN Grids Workshop

• Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP)• 27/28 April 2006• Many NRENs & project represntatioin• Focus – Grid Security Incident Handling• Conclusions

• Use NREN CERTs • Develop strong collaborative links between Grid

Experts and NREN-CERTs

• 4th Workshop will be in Fall

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TF-EMC2

• Active work items:

• AA-RR• HelloSAML• SCHAC• TACAR• REFEDs• SCS

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Other Task Forces Highlights

• TF-CSIRT• Large event with FIRST, January 2006

• TF-Mobility• eduroam-in-a-box

• TF-VVC• Recommendations published • Evolving into next TF

• TF-NGN• Working with GN2

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External Project Overviews

• EGEE• EGEE-I ended 31 March 2006• TERENA footprint inside Grid Community

• MOME• Future of the database ?

• SEEREN2• Session at TNC2006• Training workshop – summer 2006

• SEEFIRE• Policy workshop – January 2006• Published: “Guidelines for the Deployment of Customer

Empowered Fibre Infrastructure”

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Challenges

• using videconference/collaborating tools for end users is starting to be easier, but NOT YET dial and play.• H.323 is here; but still some twists needed to make it

interoperate• SIP sun is rising up, but “midday is a bit delayed”• Collaboration tools old and new: is that the way

forward?• Need actions now for supporting service use• Need research now to decide the way forward

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Challenges

• convergence between grid and NRENs activity is touching fundamental topics• Security: users’ credentials are (no) more an obstacle to

grid deployment (?)• Middleware: certificates are deploying, collaboration with

NRENs• digital identity federations on the start; the “last operator” is

often the same person inside the campus/institution• ECAM  (do you have a mirror)?• etc...

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Challenges

• Network services and tools to non scientific users is starting• Scientific users are curious to know what’s behind it• Other users are afraid of what’s behind it, “don’t worry” support• Strong cultural differences: build the bridge to understand each

other (local cultural digital divide)• Pioneers exists taking over the challenge

• Initiatives to support new user's communities• medical, arts, humanities,…• “the best choice” for them often is different from the one for

scientific users

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Challenges

• PR aspect:• you get often

much more out of it than out of a 40Gb speed record

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Issues

• control plane for complex mixed networks• Routed• Switched• Optical• CBF and Backbone• Central vs Users’ control• Who knows what’s happening when something is

going wrong?• … anything we are just discovering now

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Issues

• How to "scale up" NRENs services to bigger numbers • Has e-mail a problem?• Do our services management scale up to millions and

millions of users?• Are NRENs ready to handle with the well know high

quality support thousands and thousands of “customers” ?

• NRENs offer more… How to keep it “more” and scale it up.

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Questions?