Info Gathering -- DRAFT

For PI/Researcher/Collaboration Coordinator

Describe the scope of your research and collaborations.

Describe how the leadership of your CO make decision.

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

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

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

For PI/Researcher/Collaboration Coordinator

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?

What roles do people play within your CO? How consistent are the roles (e.g. researcher, administrator, assistant) across the CO, or do roles often blend?

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

For Collaboration Coordinator/Administrators

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

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

Is command line and/or 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?

Will data sets be stored or shared within the collaboration infrastructure?

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

Are applications currently deprovisioned? If so, how?

List other necessary domain science applications that are required for your CO.

List other necessary collaboration tools that are required for your CO.

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

For Collaboration Coordinator/Site Administrators

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 CO have?

For Site Administrators

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 CO?

Is eduPerson in use or required?

For Site Administrators

List the compute and data platforms (software) currently in use.

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

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

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

For PI/Researcher/Collaboration Coordinator

Describe one or two "typical" users and their expected activities and interactions with a COmanaged-environment