Info Gathering -- DRAFT

Describe the scope of your research and collaborations.

Describe how the leadership of your VO make decisions?

How are new services defined, developed, and promoted to the participants?

What level of authority does the VO leadership have to specify local group behaviors?

Who decides what services are given to whom, and when are those services provisioned/de-provisioned?

Key campuses in the US?

Any international participants or resources?

Any other participants outside of the R&E community (e.g. commercial entities)

Key federal agencies involved?

Levels of assurance (LOA) requirements around the research? What is the importance of the resources being protected?

How consistent are the roles across the VO?

Describe the variations of size and character of groups within the VO.

Does your VO use or expect to use web portals or other science gateways?

How do people find out about new applications available to your VO?

Is command line and ssh in use? In what way/For what purpose?

Is single sign-on (SSO) required through the applications in use? If so, are you using a certificate or key based service? How are the certificates or keys managed?

How are applications currently provisioned? Do you use a distributed model or rely on centralized services for provisioning?

Describe other necessary domain science applications that are required for your VO.

Describe other necessary collaboration tools that are required for your VO.

Is there a preferred console for the authentication/authorization management interface?

Which online resources need access controls?

Who determines which resources need protecting?

What type of education and outreach needs regarding access control issues does your VO have?

Describe your current identity management and authentication models. How does this differ from your ongoing plans or expectations?

Describe your current ability to produce credentials of different LOA's.  How does this differ from your ongoing plans or expectations?

Do you use directories and registries? Describe.

Who needs to be able to add people? Who is responsible for disambiguation within the registry?

Are there specific schema that are required by your VO?

Is eduPerson in use or required?

Describe the compute and data platforms currently in use.

Describe the collaboration platforms, if any, currently in use.

Describe if/how your VO uses Google Apps or other outsourced collaboration environments.

Describe any use, or expected use, of platforms like Teragrid or OSG.