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e-Infrastructure Programme

James Farnhill

e-Research Programme Manager

e-Infrastructure Security Development Plans


Introduction and Agenda

Introduction to e-Infrastructure programme;

Introduction to e-Infrastructure Security theme;

Main call areas for e-Infrastructure Security theme:

– Identity Management and Levels of Assurance

– Developing and enhancing federated tools and services

– Virtual Organisation Management Tools and Services

Accounting and usage ITT and call;

Questions.


Vision

The £10 million e-Infrastructure programme is primarily concerned with consolidating and building on work to establish an e-infrastructure undertaken with other partners during the initial five-year investment in the UK e-science programme.

e-Infrastructure embraces networks, security, grids, data centres, specialist services and collaborative environments, and can include supporting operations centres, service registries, single sign-on, certificate authorities, training and community support services. The range of e-Infrastructure developments is already maturing: grid computing is now typically used as a basis for the computation and data management required by collaborative research, and JISC investments such as in virtual research environments and Shibboleth are presently being adopted.


Thematic Areas

e-Infrastructure Security

Grid Services and Tools

Knowledge Organisation and Semantic Services

Community Engagement and Support



Roadmap




Apr 06 Mar 09Sep 06 Mar 07 Sep 07 Mar 08 Sep 08

B1 ID Management and LOA

B2 Core Functions

B3 Federated Tools and Services

B4 VO Mgt Tools and Services

A1 A&H Research Projects

A2 Data Curation

A3 e-R comm. supp and engage.

A4 User Reqs and Barriers

A5 User Surveys

D1 Text Mining

D2 Semantic Co-ord res. And VOs

C1 OMII

C2 NGS

C3 Accounting and Usage Mon.






Introduction to e-Infrastructure Security

One of the four themes of e-Infrastructure;

Split into three areas:

– Identity management and levels of assurance (IM & LOA)

– Developing and enhancing federated tools and services

– Virtual Organisation authorisation and management tools and services

Part of the ongoing work by JISC on security and access management;

Builds on the existing work in Core Middleware;

Links with the Transition to Federation programme;


Inputs to programme

Community consultation with a range of national and international experts, which is ongoing and includes meetings such as this one;

Some of the items from the recent core middleware wishlist that can be accommodated within the programme;

Direction from the JISC Committee for Support of Research;

OST AAA working group;


Background to IM and LOA

Trust amongst members of a federation requires robust identity management to be in place;

Different resources require different levels of assurance of a user to be able to access them;

Therefore need to gain consensus on:

– Equivalence of IM practices, processes and technologies

– How different LOA are created and assigned to resources

Increased use of virtual organisations by researchers to collaborate could change IM and LOA in institutions;


IM & LoA - Aims of the Call, Timescales and Funding

Help establish consolidation and consensus amongst the community on existing practice in the areas of identity management and level of assurance (phase 1);

Develop solutions to resolve gaps/issues (phase 2);

Two year duration with potential for six month extension

– Phase one over one year

– Phase two over one year

Call already issued and being marked;

Projects scheduled to start in September;

£650,000 total budget:

– £400,000 over the four areas in the first phase

– £250,000 in second phase


IM & LoA - Call Areas

First Phase:

– Identity Management within Institutions

– Identity Management across Institutional Boundaries

– Defining Level of Assurance

– Appropriate Level of Assurance

Second Phase:

– Closed call for gaps/issues identified in first phase


Developing and enhancing federated tools and services

Call for projects in September for £900,000;

Projects planned to start in January 2007 and finish December 2008;

Aims to support piloting and the wider adoption of an integrated Grid/Shibboleth approach to identity and access management through:

– Delegation within n-tier Web Service architectures

– Development and initial rollout of a “Virtual Home for Identities”


Virtual Organisation Management Tools and Services

Call for projects in September for £525,000;

Projects planned to start in January 2007 and finish December 2008;

Aims to ensure that appropriate authorisation services and related infrastructure are in place to support higher level tools for the construction and management of VOs;

Works in collaboration with the semantic models package, which is seeking to automate the VO set up processes.


Accounting and Usage

Comes under the Grid Services and Tools theme;

Reviewing existing models of accounting and usage as a first stage (£100K);

Acting on recommendations from first stage in second stage (£300K);

Potentially interesting area for security as traditionally closely tied in with AAI;


Other Considerations

Contribute to the e-Framework for Research and Education

– Reference models

– Services that are not already included

Support for JISC dissemination activities

Availability of software and information to the community


Questions

Questions and answers


Contact Details

James Farnhill

e-Research Programme Manager

JISC Executive,

2nd Floor, Beacon House,Queens Road,

Bristol,BS8 1QU.

[email protected]: 07766 442259Fax: 0117 9545078

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