terena activities internet2 members meeting, international task force 8 october 2007
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TERENA Activities
Internet2 Members Meeting, International Task Force8 October 2007
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› A not-for-profit association of European National Research and Education Networks
› Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
› Membership:
› 36 National Members (NRENs)
› 2 International Members (CERN & ESA)
› 10 Associate Members (DANTE, NORDUnet, equipment vendors & telecoms operators)
› Main goals:
› Representing common interests and opinions of membership
› Knowledge transfer
› Developing, testing and promoting new technologies
› Fostering new services
TERENA Organisation
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› Compendium has been published annually since 2000.
› Collection of relevant information about European and some African, Asian and N & S American NRENs (58):
› Organisational information and legal form
› Funding and staffing details
› Number of users/clients, and type of connectivity
› Internal and external connectivity, capacity of links, technologies, dark fibre availability
› Traffic data
› Types of services offered
› Provides overview of network status in each country.
› New 2007 edition available on TERENA website, and as published report.
› http://www.terena.org/activities/compendium/
NREN Compendium
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› GN2 networking activity to investigate the evolution of European research and education networking over next 5+ years.
› Seven sub-study areas:
› Organisational and Governance issues
› Economic issues (move to dark fibre, and provision of new services)
› Researchers’ needs (what type of network and services are required?)
› Other users’ needs (e.g. schools, healthcare, arts & humanities)
› Technical issues (transmission, control plane & routing, network virtualisation, operations and performance, middleware)
› Geographic issues (developing measures to quantify digital divide)
› Campus issues (infrastructure, services, expertise and collaboration)
› Aims to identify trends, developments and to make recommendations for future research and education networks.
› All sub-study reports plus final conclusions available shortly.
› http://www.terena.org/activities/earnest/
EARNEST Foresight Study
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› Promotes, develops and tests technologies that allow roaming between networks.
› Established the eduroam pilot service that permits inter-institutional WLAN roaming.
› Currently involved in GN2-NA5 activity to develop eduroam into full production service.
› New activities include:
› Improving monitoring and measurement of eduroam service.
› Considering how to facilitate interoperability with other roaming services.
› Looking at Mobile IP implementations, particularly MIPv6.
› http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-mobility/
TF-Mobility
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› Discusses middleware issues and fosters collaboration.
› Established Secure Certificate Service (SCS).
› Setup Schema Harmonisation Committee (SCHAC) to develop standard identity schema for higher education inter-institutional data exchange.
› Currently working on REFEDS (Research and Education Federations) initiative:› Investigating technical specifications for authentication and authorisation
between identity federations
› Defining policies and guidelines for peering of federations, starting from common denominators.
› How to handle overlaps between R&E, government and commercial sectors.
› Agree “Levels of Assurance”.
› Identify major projects that can benefit from cross-federation peerings.
› Organised 1st International REFEDS meeting on 3 September 2007 in Prague.
› http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-emc2
TF-EMC2
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› Promotes collaboration and knowledge transfer between European CSIRTs.
› Includes NREN, ISP, government and commercial CSIRTS.
› Meets three times per year, to discuss issues of common interest and new approaches.
› Establish pilot services (e.g. trusted introducer, tracker database) and common standards and procedures).
› Assist new CSIRTs (e.g. through training and mentoring).
› Prevent miscommunication between NRENs, the EU, and national governments.
› Developed TRANSITS training material and runs training courses (with FIRST and ENISA).
› http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-csirt/
TF-CSIRT
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› Promotes collaboration in areas of public relations and information dissemination.
› Aims to improve exchange of information within the European R&E community.
› Established PeAR news wire – online system for posting news items.
› Develops and publishes publicity material of common interest.
› Produces Glossary of Terms, HOWTOs and FAQs.
› http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-pr/
› http://www.terena.org/news/community/ (PeAR)
TF-PR (Public Relations)
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› Works to improve service and product delivery amongst NRENs.
› NRENs must provide services to increasing demanding and critical users.
› NRENs are facing competition from commercial ISPs, so must continue to distinguish themselves.
› Compares and analyses NREN service portfolios (e.g. what services are offered)?
› Compares service level agreements.
› Shares information and ideas for new services (e.g. Mail Dike).
› http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-lcpm/
TF-LCPM (Life Cycle and Portfolio Management)
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› Established in response to need for SSL server certificates in research and education community.
› Many NRENs had set-up a CA, but issued certificates not listed as trusted by web browsers (the ‘pop-up’ problem).
› Purchasing certificates directly from commercial CAs is expensive.
› TERENA contracted GlobalSign to run dedicated CA for NRENs (and by extension their user communities).
› Service commenced in 2006, and will run until at least 2010.
› Enables certificates to be issued for low cost.
› Currently 14 participating NRENs (acting as RAs), and >10K certificates issued.
› http://www.terena.org/activities/scs/
Server Certificate Service(SCS)
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TERENA Academic CA Repository (TACAR)
› A trusted repository for holding verified root CA certificates of TERENA members.
› Holds certificates directly managed by the member NRENs, belonging to national academic PKIs, or related institutes or projects (e.g. EUGridPMA).
› Operating since 2003.
› Accreditation process for collection and updating of certificates in root CA.
› Certificates made publicly available via secure website, along with policies
› http://www.terena.org/activities/earnest/
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6DISS Project
› Provided IPv6 training and knowledge transfer in various regions around the world.
› Utilised operational experience of 6NET and Euro6IX projects.
› Organised 13 practical training workshops & 2 informational events.
› Developed extensive IPv6 tutorial material that may be freely used.
› E-Learning package with Portuguese and Russian subtitles (others can potentially be added) available online and as CD image.
› IPv6 Deployment Guide available.
› IPv6 testbed available for training and testing purposes.
› http://www.6diss.org/
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› New EC-funded project (under FP7 e-Infrastructures).
› 21 partners, including 11 NRENs, Juniper & Siemens.
› Aims to develop a European-wide scalable and technology agnostic network infrastructure for disruptive experiments.
› Testbed will initially comprise dedicated 1 GE circuits between CH, CZ, DE, IT and PL, with ES and GR connecting via existing production circuits using Ethernet over MPLS.
› Will offer virtualised resources such as routers and circuits using the ‘slice’ paradigm that can support multiple experiments in parallel.
› A tool-bench will be developed to leverage existing virtualisation and network control mechanisms, and extend these to support multi-domain management and monitoring.
› Testbed planned to be operational in late-2008, initially offering VLANs supported by L2 MPLS.
› Plan is to offer usage of facilities to NRENs and other FP7 ‘FIRE’ projects.
FEDERICA Project
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