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TERENA GA – Rhodes, 10 – 11 June 2004 1Claudio Allocchio [email protected] VP Technical Programme

TERENA Technical Programme

Activities

Claudio AllocchioTERENA VP Technical Programme

http://www.terena.nl/


TTP - Special Interest Areas (OLD)

• Lower Layers (IPv6, MPLS, VPNs etc.)

• Quality of Service (including DiffServ)

• Videoconferencing and Streaming (Including IP Telephony)

• Content Delivery, Indexing and Searching

• Middleware (security, AAI)

• Mobility

• Grid and Campus coordination


TTP - Special Interest Areas (NEW)

• Grid across all SIAs• Campus coordinations across all SIAs• E2E coordination across all SIAs• Middleware (supporting all SIAs)• Security (supporting all SIAs)• Lower Layers (IPv6, VPNs, MPLS,QoS,

Performance measuring)• Voice Video and Collaboration (including

VoIP,Content Delivery…)• Mobility• Special note on Information flow/dissemination and PR


TTP - Special Interest Areas (NEW)

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TERENA Technical Committee

The composition of the TTC (June 2004):• Claudio Allocchio - VP Technical Programme• Roberto Barbera - GRID• Steve Williams - Video, Voice, Collaboration• Christoph Graf - Security• Victor Reijs - High Speed Lower Layers and

Optical Networking• Ton Verschuren - Middleware• Martin Sutter - E2E and Campus Issues• John Dyer - Chief Technical Officer• Karel Vietsch - Secretary General• PDOs


TAC - Discussion Topics (1)

VIDEO-STREAMING• Expand to users - not for techies --> service !• Reliable delivery of packets (Bandwidth, delay…)• Facility cordination, dialling schemas• Collaboration! Expertise and facilities discovery!SECURITY• Successful and expanding beyond NRENs• Shall we split the group?

• NRENs, ISPs, GOV,…

• Follow TRENDS, and monitor regulators!• Legal ISSUES and Responsibilities• Security to PRESERVE services integrity (VoIP…)• One Security expert in each TF/Group ?



GRIDS• A challenge: deliverables BEFORE other project complete

them• Lots of requirements to NRENs: BoD, Monitoring, VPNs,…• Dissemination but also COORDINATION (duplication

avoidance)• Coordination with SECURITY, CA interworking, PoliciesMIDDLEWARE• PKI and Security focus• Coordination and interoperability (many reasults already)• US MACE, TACAR• TF-EMC?

• EuroMACE, a TF?

• Liaisions JRA5, EGEE



MOBILITY• Access to roaming users• Bringing It to the end user (Campuses) - deployment!• Strong security interaction• Extend roaming to all NRENs and endpointsLOWER LAYER• Collaboration with all other areas• Speak the same language, common terms• Bring univ/campus people back• Access to the backbone, mobile, remote areasE2E• Bring the whole picture together• Tools, teams, language together - a flow chain• TF for it?


Further Steering Investigations

• For the second year in a row the "Call for new Ideas" produced poor results:

• Do we reach the right people?• Are our scarce human resources overbooked?• "no money - no ideas"?

• The TAC is doing its job• We will discuss the issues also off-line (ML)

• TNC is a source of ideas and information• We are trying to grep ideas from presentations,

discussions and coffee break discussions


Task Forces - evolution

• TF-AACE --> TF-EMC?, GN2-JRA5• TF-CSIRT --> continuing, GN2-JRA2• TF-NETCAST --> TF-VCC?• TF-NGN --> review goal, GN2-

JRA1/3/4• TF-Mobility --> TF-Mobility(ext)?, GN2-JRA5

• TF-PR --> end users!


TF-AACEofficially ended in April 2004. Made TACAR a successLast meeting June 6th -->TF-EMC

TF-NGNPerformance monitoring and PERT (human experts)How to authorize users for PremiumIP (still by NOCs)Need more active people, too much a forum. Under

revision. Coordinate with AAI - TF-EMC, GN2-JRAs TF-CSIRT officially ended in May 2004. New term of reference for extension. Interaction with external bodies, not only

R&D, laws interaction with certificates?


TF-NETCASTofficially ended in February 2004, Implement content distribution University/Research European channel.

Making final deliverables. --> TF-VVC TF-MOBILITYending its final deliverables and moving to service deployment. Users and technology roamingScalability, EU but also beyond, and interoperability--> TF-MOBILITY(ext)


TF-EMCEuropean Middleware Collaboration. Liaison with GN2 JRA5, counterpart of MACE, AAI development and integrations, integration with Grid Middleware ServicesTACAR continuation.

TF-VVCBoF at TNC, build on TF-NETCAST and IP Telephony

experts group. Also Content delivery, … TF-MOBILITY (ext) developing and scaling roaming services, Liaison with

GN2 JRA5, provide secuire integrated mobile services


Technical Programme Projects

• Internal TERENA Projects• Funded by the community interested in specific projects.• e.g. IP Telephony Cookbook, GNRT, TACAR

• External Projects• (part)-funded by the European Commission• Needs international collaboration 3+ EC countries• Multiple partners (not just TERENA members).• Currently: 6NET, EGEE, SCAMPI, SEEREN, TRANSITS, MOME• Proposals submitted to 6th Framework Programme:

GN2, LOBSTER, NoAH,…


IP Telephony Cookbook

• 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.• regulatory and legal aspects.• interoperability of different IP telephony equipment.

DONE, Bring Home a Copy !http://www.terena.nl/tech/IPtel/ (bits still weight less!)


Projects - GNRT

• Guide to Network Resource Tools• First published in 1996, • Available as a book • Aimed at users and support staff.• Provides basic introduction to the Internet.

• How to use e-mail, web browsing, searching, and other common services.

• advice on standards, security, web-development etc..

• DONE ! http://gnrt.terena.nl/• May be freely distributed by TERENA members, who

may also acquire the local translation rights (e.g. Slovenian).


Directory Schema Registry

• Implemented by DAASI International• Community Funding

• TERENA, JISC, RedIRIS, CESNET, PSNC, DAASI

• LDAP Schema Registry• Web Interface• Completed: Deliverables available at:

http://www.terena.nl/tech/projects/SchemaRegistry/


Certificate Retrieval in OpenLDAP

• Additional Functionality to Open LDAP• Community Funding:

• TERENA, CESNET, RedIRIS, SURFnet, SWITCH, UNINETT

• Allows the searching on useful keys• E.g. names containing email addresses

• Technical Issues encountered - DoS attacks• Completed!

http://www.terena.nl/tech/projects/AddingCertificateToOpenLDAP/


TERENA Academic CA Repository - TACAR

• Idea originated in TF-AACE• Discussed at TTC, TAC and May 2003 GA• Agreed Standard Format

• TF-AACE policy document – available online

• Implemented since end of 2003• Very successful! ~ 15 certificates, 50% GRID CA ones• heavily used also by the GRID community, collaboration

with EUGridPMA• http://www.terena.nl/tech/task-forces/tf-aace/tacar/• … more vegetables boiling in the pot….


External Project - 6NET

• TERENA leads the dissemination work package: website, workshops, etc..

• Most results are publicly available!• 6Net Conference and Eurov6 Showcase• IPv4-IPv6 Transition cookbook, IPv6 and DNS• Collaboration beyond its area (Silknet)• It ignited IPv6 deployment in production

networks (GEANT, NRENs)• Officially ends Dec 2004


External Project - SCAMPI

• EU-funded project led by TERENA: April 2002 – September 2004.

• Completed the 1Gbps adapter, MAPI middleware,...

• Completed a prototype PCI-based adapter card for monitoring at 10 Gbps.

• In final Debugging and Performance tunig phase

• Includes dedicated API for developing standard applications.


External Project – SEEREN

• South-Eastern European Research & Education Networking• EU-funded project led by GRNET: December 2002 – June

2004• TERENA is a dissemination and liaison partner – linking

SERENATE, TF-NGN and Internet2 with SEEREN.• Establishing a network infrastructure (2-34 Mbps) between

Romania, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, FYR of Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Serbia & Montenegro. UP!

• NATO ANW Policy Issues for NRENs in SE Europe – Varna, Bulgaria – 7-9 September 2003


External Project - TRANSITS

• TRAining of Network Security Incident Teams’ Staff• EC-funded project led by TERENA: July 2002 – June

2005

• Develops and maintains course material for training CSIRT staff

• Holds training workshops (with travel funding for NAS countries)


External Project - MOME

• Monitoring and Measurement Cluster• Led by Salzburg Research• TERENA Dissemination partner

• Website, mailing lists• Host measurement database• Two – 1-day workshops• Sessions at TNC 2004, 2005


NREN Compendium

• Compendium has been published annually since 2000.• Collection of relevant information about European NRENs:

• Administrative data and legal form.• Number of users and market share.• Internal and external connectivity, and capacity of links.• Network traffic, load and congestion indicators.• Services, staffing and funding.• Projects and NRENs interest areas.

• Provides overview of network status in each country.• A good tool for lobbying governments and/or funding bodies!

• A good tool to find out more about what an NRENs Is doing!• Going into GN2 activities!


What is TERENA doing in the GRID arena ?

• Major interest for the NRENs is Networking components• Lower Layers = Optical / High Speed Networking• Middleware = AAI

• Many NREN (users) Particpate in Global Grid Forum (GGF)• High Performance Networking & Measurement• Security & AAI

• Participating in proposed EGEE project; TERENA leads the dissemination activity, NRENs and their users are the core of the production activities


• 2 year project (initially)• Production Service GRID• Started April 2004• EC contribution 30 million €• 70 partners• TERENA Lead Dissemination

• websites, mail-lists• conferences• assistance on PR


External Project - EGEE

• TERENA leads the dissemination activities• Workshop and Conferences organisation• A LOT of effort being put into, by TERENA staff• A management challenge• Further indirect exchanges: knowledge

interactions


New External Project - GN2

• TERENA main tasks:

• NREN Development and Support (NA4)• Foresight Study (NA5)• Coordination of RTD activities (NA6)• Central support for Users Support and Consultancy (NA3) with DANTE.• Under discussion:

• Participation at project management level, and JRAs coordination-liaison with TERENA TFs


GN2 Joint Research Activities

• JRA1- Performance Measurement and Management• A comprehensive Network Management Framework• TF-NGN PERT

• JRA2 - Security• Network Security Components• TF-CSIRT, TF-AACE --> TF-EMC

• JRA3 - New Service Development• Bandwidth on Demand• TF-NGN

• JRA4 - Technology and Service Testing• Implement a Distributed Test Facility• TF-NGN

• JRA5 - Mobility and Ubiquity• Creation of an Interoperable AAI• TF-AACE --> TF-EMC

• OTHERS to come, created inside TERENA community


New External Project - LOBSTER

• TERENA, information dissemination, web, workshops• Design and deploy infrastructure for accurate traffic

monitoring• "it still walks on the sea floor"• TNO Telecom, FORTHnet, FORTH, Alcatel, Endace,

UNINETT, CESNET, VUA• Waiting for final signature


New External Project - NoAH

• NoAH is a support action for Design Studies and building of new infrastructures and accompanying measures

• Study the idea and deployability of an "Honeypot" network in Europe (NRENs, ISPs, Universities, Large Organisations)

• TERENA Job: you guess what (dissemination, WEB, …)• FORTH, FORTHnet, DFN, ETH Zuerich, VUA, Virtual Trip• Status still unknown (submitted March 4th - Security call)


FP6 Casualties

ASTON --->• GRANDE• GARDEN

• But we can anyhow take out at least SOME ideas and create smaller projects/testbeds !

• Money/Sponsorships/Collaboration !


Issues addressed by NRENs

• Production IPv6 Roll-out• Security (specifically AAI)

• GRID and Ubiquitous Computing (mobility)

• End-to-End Service (PERT)• Adoption of the GRID

• Massive traffic loads, Global Virtual Organisations

• Ownership/Operational Models for NRENs• Shift in expenditure profiles from links to equipment

• Helping NRENs "customers" to solve their last mile and internal network problems


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