Attending
Heather Flanagan, Internet2 (Chair)
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2
Benn Oshrin, Internet2
Keith Hazelton, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Scott Koranda, U. Wisconsin - Milwaukee (LIGO)
Steve Olshansky, Internet2
Emily Eisbruch, Internet2, scribe
*Carry Over Action Items*
[AI] (Heather) will set up meetings with IRODS/iPlant/Internet2 in February
[AI] (Steven) will develop a one-page write-up on attribute aggregation.
2012 Spring Member Meeting
For 2012 SMM, there will be
- REFEDs BOF
Sunday, 22-April-2012, 1pm - 5pm
- COmanage Working Group Session
Monday, 23-April-2012, 9:15am - 10:15am
- Proposed track session, titled:
- "Collaboration is Happening: Updates from the Field" (speakers: Heather and Remco)
- has been merged with another proposal from SURFnet, which is titled:
- "Open Collaboration Exchange for e-Research Services (Harold Teunissen and Floor Jas)
- Ben Fineman of Internet2 will be helping to facilitate the merger of these two sessions into one.
CMPs and Interfederation
On the Collab-Intl Call of 1-Mar-2012, the topic was discussed:
Working Across CMP
- what needs to work across platforms (LOA, attribute release,
people picking, groups, name spaces....)
- inter-federation is a vehicle for exchanging a lot of metadata, not just for trust or authentication
- so to solve issues of CMPs working on each other, the answer is inter-federation
- There is interest in inter-federation at the senior management level within Internet2
- Ken stated that inter-federation has made a lot of progress
- it's pretty close to being there, though there are still many policy issues around release
Document on Inter-Federation
- Ken is developing a one or two page document on the drivers for inter-federation in terms of use cases
- The role of PEER in inter-federation what will be important
- How much trust mechanism do we want to put around peer?
- This inter- federation document could be used at IDTRUST to motivate the gap analysis
- Ken and Heather will discuss the development of the inter-federation document further offline
Discussions with NSF
- ScottK has learned that Ed Seidel of NSF is interested in funding efforts that would increase electronic
collaboration between the US and Europe.
- Not clear if is this different from SAVI: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/savi/index.jsp
- Ken spoke with Kevin of NSF recently
- Kevin is pleased with the global impact of recent activities
- also he wants us to look at the NSF implications
- Ken noted that a DOE science report (in draft stages) is significant on how it partitions the problem
- This DOE report was written in a workshop in Dec. 2011
- It divides the space into:
- big data
- big computation
- networking
- tools for collaboration or team software (this is related to CMP)
Globus Online CMP / Globus Collaborate
- The Globus Online CMP plans to demo and release at Globus World in April http://globusworld.org/
- Ken may attend Globus World
- The Globus CMP was developed for BIRN http://www.loni.ucla.edu/BIRN/
- Blue Waters may be interested http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/
- It's a hosted solution, not open source
- Globus Onine has another product in the pipeline called Globus Integrate
- in the identity mapping space
- A Globus identity will be offered if you don't have another Identity to bring with you
- It was noted that the account linking could have consequences on LOA
- Also, Globus is planning a data storage service, where their tool is place in front of storage
NSTIC Pilot Grants
- There is much work around the community on NSTIC Pilot Grants.
- Ken (and possibly Heather) will attend this NSTIC governance meeting:
- NSTIC Identity Ecosystem Governance Workshop: March 15, 2012
http://www.educause.edu/blog/vvogel/NSTICIdentityEcosystemGovernan/247494
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Heather is now on the Kantara leadership council.
Next COmanage TAC call is Friday, 16- March- 2012 at 2:00p.m. EDT, 11:00a.m. PDT.