TERENA Activities Internet 2 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 Slide 2
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/ Slide 3
EARNEST Foresight Study › GN 2 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/ Slide 4
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 GN 2 -NA 5 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 MIPv 6. › http: //www. terena. org/activities/tf-mobility/ Slide 5
TF-EMC 2 › 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 1 st International REFEDS meeting on 3 September 2007 in Prague. › http: //www. terena. org/activities/tf-emc 2 Slide 6
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/ Slide 7
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 Pe. AR 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/ (Pe. AR) Slide 8
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/ Slide 9
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 Global. Sign 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 >10 K certificates issued. › http: //www. terena. org/activities/scs/ Slide
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. EUGrid. PMA). › 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/ Slide
6 DISS Project › Provided IPv 6 training and knowledge transfer in various regions around the world. › Utilised operational experience of 6 NET and Euro 6 IX projects. › Organised 13 practical training workshops & 2 informational events. › Developed extensive IPv 6 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. › IPv 6 Deployment Guide available. › IPv 6 testbed available for training and testing purposes. › http: //www. 6 diss. org/ Slide
FEDERICA Project › New EC-funded project (under FP 7 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 L 2 MPLS. › Plan is to offer usage of facilities to NRENs and other FP 7 ‘FIRE’ projects. Slide
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