Transcript 20071008-TERENA-meynell

TERENA Activities
Internet2 Members Meeting, International Task Force
8 October 2007
TERENA Organisation
› 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
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NREN Compendium
› 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/
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EARNEST Foresight Study
› 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/
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TF-Mobility
› Promotes, develops and tests technologies that allow
roaming between networks.
› Established the eduroam pilot service that permits interinstitutional 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/
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TF-EMC2
› 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
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TF-CSIRT
› 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/
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TF-PR (Public Relations)
› 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)
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TF-LCPM (Life Cycle
and Portfolio Management)
› 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/
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Server Certificate Service
(SCS)
› 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/
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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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FEDERICA Project
› 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 multidomain 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.
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