Internet2 and other US WMD Update
Topics
• Update on non-merger, Newnet (and the control
plane), InCommon and other feds
• “Product” update – Shib, Grouper, Signet,
Diagnostics, CAS, etc.
• New NSF Solicitation
• CAMP plans
• Sakai, Chandler, the Kuali administrative family
• Areas of ferment – GridShib, workflow,
attribute/identity linking, collaboration and virtual
organizations
I2 Stuff
• Divorce with NLR now final; competition is on
• Changes in governance, may lead to change in
leadership, may lead to a change in culture…
• Newnet rolling out well; lots of delta politics; control
plane is real need; DICE and global scheduling
• InCommon slowly growing; other US federations
occurring at state and medical levels
• US Gov interfederation peering is as strange as the
US Gov
• InQueue is going away…
Product Update
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Shib
Signet
Grouper
Diagnostics
CAS, pubcookie, etc…
New NSF Solicitation
• Three areas of emphasis – HPC
improvements, distributed data,
middleware for collab and VO’s
• New work and improvements on existing
work
• Due Jan 22, 2007
CAMP plans
• Nov 2-3 IdM Summit
• Nov 7-9 Signet/Grouper
• Dec 4-7 I2 Fall Member Meeting
• Teragrid-campus IdM alignment?
• Feb 07 Federations and VO’s
Other US open source
• Sakai
• CAS
• Kuali
• Financials
• Student System
• Some recent developments include use of
infrastructure…
Areas of ferment
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The GridShib family
Workflow
SOA architectures
Attribute movement/identity linking
Virtual organizations
General collaboration tools
• The standard suite…
• List serve, protected wiki, IM buddy list,
audioconferencing, access-controlled web
site, videoconferencing, shared calendaring,
etc…
• Integrated with enterprise-based systems
• No separate calendars to maintain
• Consistent user interface in managing local
and virtual lives
An Archetype: Jean Blue and VOGUE
• Professor Jean Blue
• Professor of Micro-astro Physics at
Sandstone U, teaching MAP 1010
• PI of international VOGUE project
• Fiscal authority of local VOGUE funds
• Parking permit for Lot 421
• ID Card
Things that Jean Blue wants to do
• As PI of VOGUE, she gets lots of VOGUE
privileges. She wants to
• Assign to students of MAPS 101 permission to read
the VOGUE mass-hypometer
• Assign to the four TA/discussion leaders permission to
reset the mass-hypometer
• Facilitate on-line discussions among the students
taking classes at other universities from her co-PI’s
• Have read/write privileges on the VOGUE wiki, and
give her students read access to parts of the Wiki
Vision in one slide
• Build a campus/enterprise core middleware
infrastructure that
• Serves the overall enterprise IT environment, providing business
drivers and institutional investment for sustainability and scalability
• Is designed to support the research and instructional missions
• Implies consistent approaches and common practices across campuses
and internationally
• Build, plumb, and replumb the tools of research on top of
that emergent infrastructure
• Domain-specific middleware (grids, sensor nets, etc)
• Common collaboration tools (video, protected wikis, shared
calendaring, audioconferencing, etc.)
The Current Kool-aid
• Campuses build consistent and sustainable
middleware infrastructures
• Federating software and federations create
effective inter-institutional collaboration
infrastructure
• Federations peer internationally and across
sectors to extend the value
• Virtual organizations leverage campus
infrastructure and peered federations for usercentric enterprise-manageable teams