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AARC addresses research collaborations and e-infrastructures that either are already deploying or are in the process to deploy an AAI that is AARC- compliant. Compared to AARC1, AARC2 is much more closer to the research collaborations; a number of them are participating in AARC2 and work together with the AARC team to deploy an AAI that is compliant with the AARC Blueprint Architecture.
What does AARC2 do?
AARC works together with research collaborations and e-infrastructures architects participating in AARC to further develop the AARC Blueprint Architecture (BPA) produced during the AARC1 project, to define technical and policy guidelines to ease the implementation of AARC compliant AAIs and to ensure that these guidelines are deployed by resaerch and e-infrastructures beyond the AARC project remit (via AEGIS).
AARC also offers consultancy to research collaborations (in AARC and beyond) to design help them pilot a suitable AAI that meets their needs and that is compliant with the AARC Blueprint.
AARC2 Results
- AARC Bluepring Architecture - ARC2 has continued to work on the AARC Blueprint Architecture (AARC BPA), which is still a great achievement. This has been and will remain for some time a cornerstone for those in charge of designing an AAI for their research collaboration. Beside working on a new version of the BPA that will be available by June 2018 (and will be more research community oriented), there has been ongoing work on the technical guidelines, as well as on the policy aspects. The latter is being address via the AARC Starter Pack (aka Policy Toolkit) which is being developed; this to address security and privacy aspects related to the AARC BPA.
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- Deliverables and milestones - These documents were defined as part of the AARC description of work.
- Guidelines - AARC produces different guidelines to support the deployment of the AARC BPA in research collaborations and to address interoperability across infrastructures. Guidelines that have a general purpose and are meant to facilitate inter-operability across infrastructures are discussed by the AEGIS group for endorsment. The "AARC Engagement Group for InfrastructureS" (AEGIS) has establish bi-directional channels between AARC and infrastructures (that deploy or are in the process of deploying an AARC compliant AAI) to advise each other on the developments and production integration aspects of the AARC results. The current guidelines endorsed by AEGIS are:
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