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• SIG-Greenhouse approval - Nicole Harris
  

  On 30 September a A meeting was held in Amsterdam to discuss the SIG-Greenhouse in more detail.

  Two main proposals:

  1. Proposed initial pilot to work with NLNet who has experienceTrial . First trial with filesender - if that is successful, MoU with NLNet could be proposed.

  2. Set up the SIG to be a sounding board, suggesting ideas, encouraging good practices

  Charter is put together - it was agreed to keep it small and focussed for the time being.

  GÉANT would remain involved by providing continuous support and monitoring  

  SIG SIG-Greenhouse has enough NRENs to support the SIG (a few statements of support), also a steering committee and a charteris formed.

  GÉANT would remain involved by providing continuous support and monitoring. NLNet and GÉANT would agree on a common brand for the work.

   

    

  TTC approved the SIG Charter, SIG can be established. News item will be published.

• DDoS workshop information - Nicole Harris
  

  DDoS Workshop was organised following a request from the community. Members of SIG-ISM, SIG-NOC, TF-MSP, TF-CSIRT participated at the event, which was very well attended (24 different organisations).In  In addition, RNP from Brazil shared their experiences and would like to be involved in activities like this more in the future.

  Report is written but not yet published due to security issues (linked to the agenda). The report contains 6 recommendations:

  1. Closed mailing list for the attendees of the workshop to continue discussion

  2. Explore the need for joint procurement for commercial DDoS mitigation solutions (Jisc is already doing that - NRENs might want to join that or request GÉANT to initiate a separate one)

  3. SGA2 paper on security review

  4. Look into the solutions that DFN is already working on

  5. Look into the work of other organisations (Radically Open Security, Team Cymru) who already have working tools

  6. SIG-NOC survey should include more questions about DDoS 

  Overall a very successful workshop.

  
  

• WISE workshop information - David Groep 
  

  Highly successful event, 50 attendees from the global attendance, including the key infrastructures. Wide range of topics were discussed: formal standards, information sharing, trust groups, threat intelligence, training, etc. A lot of interest in engaging in shared activities was expressed, including higher level of data infrastructures, community structures, doing prediction of incidents. Some of the possible shared actions were identified, such as shared training, shared use of information security standards (network and e-infrastructures globally), marketing some training materials as "best WISE recommend training materials". On the managerial level more work needs to be done, mainly to allow the technical staff to collaborate and share information freely. There is a need to create a persistent structure (perhaps REFEDS-like structure or similar). Steering committee is already elected. WISE will need to get funding, but even in the absence of funding people are convinced that it should go forward There is a difference between TF-CSIRT and WISE: TF-CSIRT is an organisation based group and WISE would bring more different institutions and individuals who want to collaborate. 

  The next possible step now is reaching out to Asia Pacific organisations and get them to participate. Alessandra will attend the APAN meeting and other meetings in Asia. 

  
  
• EGI Conference information - Open Science Cloud discussion - Valentino Cavalli

  At the EGI Conference there were a few sessions related to AAI - including one AARC organised outreach event.

  The work in the area of Open Science Cloud done up to now includes establishing a high level expert group on the European Open Science Cloud and a work programme for 2016-2017, which includes two calls for a pilot: the first is mostly for the user led initiatives and the second - to build services to support the OSC.

  The Open Science Cloud workshop at the EGI Conference was co-organised by GÉANT, EUDAT and EGI,  GÉANT, EUDAT and EGI co-organised a panel discussion, divided into 3 sessions addressing different aspects. The workshop was meant to get various actors to get together and agree on common way of working. It was successful in getting different people to express their view and ideas, but more work needs to be done to get to a coherent vision of where it needs to go.

  Open Science Cloud - highly politically charged concept, DG-Research and DG-Connect are keen on supporting it. The work in the area of Open Science Cloud done up to now includes establishing a high level expert group on the European Open Science Cloud and a work programme for 2016-2017, which includes two calls for a pilot: the first is mostly for the user led initiatives and the second - to build services to support the OSC.

• GÉANT OER update and ICT-22 call proposal - Peter Szegedi
  

  PS informed the TTC about a new call under the ICT programme (deadline - April next year), which is highly competitive, but relevant to possible continuation of the work that has been done so far in OER. At first, OER was a 9 month pilot that lead to a development of the aggregation engine and a portal, later picket up by GN4 - it is now a separate activity (SA8). It is expected to launch the OER portal by the end of the project. This area will not be funded in the 2nd phase of the GN4, but the service has more potential than a GN4 activity, so there is a need to look for funding elsewhere. PS is now working on creating a strong consortium, including commercials, libraries, universities that would create proposals - broader community needs to be involved.ICT  ICT is the closest opportunity to receive funding, however, there are other calls that are relevant and will be looked into. 

  VN suggested to get to know the reviewers and previously successful applicants. 

  VC: reminded to bring it to the attention of the GPPC.

• TF-CPR update - Laura Dunford
  

  Task Force meeting was held in Cambridge in October. The members requested to have a clearer overview of other TFs and SIGs, on which LD gave a presentation. There was a brief discussion about a possibility that TF-CPR might have to become a SIG. Other discussions included Cloud Services (what is it that they need to know in order to be able to promote those services), raising the visibility of the trainings, maintaining websites and blogs, and the future of the PeaR community news (still generated in the old TERENA way).

  One of the issues raised was user outreach - Cambridge office described some of their work, which made it clear that there are too many projects for a few people to cover. TF members took a tour of the NOC to better understand what they want to promote - Connect magazine article about NOC interoperation is planned. 

  Reporting mechanisms of the work should be more coordinated in the future. Some of the ideas: 5 min update, quarterly reportreports, thematic updates, etc.

  
  
• REFEDS Update - Nicole Harris
  

  REFEDS SC had a discussion about the VAT issue - due to REFEDS being recognised as a separate entity from GEANT, the Dutch tax authorities require REFEDS to pay VAT retrospectively. That leads to the cut of 20% and therefore a smaller work plan with less MM. 

  REFEDS SC are trying to look for ways to bring more sponsors in - Jisc and CESNET agreed to contribute, but more financing still needed. There is a possibility to move REFEDS to Kantara - this is also where the industry is sitting. Idea has been circulated for a while, but that never happened. 

  PSz PSz: Could GÉANT look into possible solutions? Perhaps change the status of REFEDS like GLIF has requested (for example, become a TF or SIG)? 

  NC: SC wanted more information why it was decided, but GÉANT only provides a service for REFEDS, it is a separate global initiative. No intention to be 

  
  
• TF-MNM - Nicole Harris
  

  Decision has been made to let it run out next September, as the TF is effectively dead and the Chair has no time to do it.

  
  

• Review of the slides on the Middleware issues - Peter Schober 

  PSc reviewed the work done in the Middleware area on open Middleware issues (action item 20150708-03). One of the  The issues can be split into categories: "tired but did not work" (one of such attempts was community effort led by SURFnet, which proved to be not successful - perhaps the aims were not clear or it failed due to a general lack of interest. Other ideas were given up on, except of ) and "things that are alive", for example EduID.se and EduID.ch - common  common idea to expand the concept of federations, including the schools + after university (and lifelong learning ) - that brings some aspects of provisioning and pre-provisioning. One of the proposals is to create a task or subtask in REFEDS (or similar). 

  The last category would be "things that we did not try" There are still ideas that has not been tried - those perhaps could be moved to the NREN level.

  Some of the reoccurring issues: authentication security, distance learning, guest accounts, connecting on mobile phones. 

  Multi-factor authentication area is an example - can it be brought to Campus Best Practice? Another idea is remote identity vetting for distant education could be a service, but it is hard to provide. Guest accounts is another problem (develop new technology or use existing one?) and proper authentication to mobile devices that is often used as the second factor (nobody is working on that).

  VC: Campus Best Practices are funded under GN4-1 and will not be continued in SGA2 as of today. A concrete proposal could be picked up by the GCP. New training coordinator has been hired to increase the outreach and training within GÉANT.

  VN: There is a need to discus these open issues somewhere. Vetting is for institutions and REFEDS is for higher up, so no intention to discuss vetting there.

  TTC will pick up the slides from Peter Sc. 

  
  

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