Agenda for Second eConcertation Workshop

08:00-09:00	Registration
09:00	*Opening Plenary* Welcome and Introduction Dale Robertson, Public Relations Manager, DANTE Next steps - a view from GN2 Roberto Sabatino, Chief Technical Officer, DANTE Reflections on eInfrastructure Concertation Enric Mitjana, Project Officer DG INFSO, Unit F3, European Commission
09:45	Coffee Break
10:00	*Break-out group sessions (run in parallel)* Monitoring & Performance Enhancement Facilitator: Maurizio Molina, DANTE This session explored the role of performance monitoring in and between different eInfrastructure environments. Specifically, it addressed the following issues: Multi-domain network monitoring, grid monitoring Tools for measurement collection and visualisation Too much information kills the information: how to 'summarise' the monitoring information Sharing monitoring information (with NOCs, with researchers): policies, anonymisation, privacy Standardisation: what has been done, what should be pushed forward? End-to-end performance: last mile and systems issues Performance Enhancement and Response Team (PERT) Definition of operational procedures in case of a fault A context-setting presentation is available. Resource Management / Allocation Facilitator: Victor Rejis, HEAnet The aim of this session was to discuss issues related to resource management and look into concepts such as unified/integrated control planes and routing, how to allocate bandwidth for future use and possible relations with protocols like GMPLS (Generalised Multiprotocol Label Switching), UCLP (User Controlled LightPath) etc. It also aimed to address resource allocation in the grid environment. Job prioritisation (between grid and non-grid jobs and between grid-jobs) Advance reservation tools Routing and scheduling for dynamic bandwidth control Bandwidth on Demand Developments in lower layer technology, like in pure optical switching Developments in integrated control planes (optical/SDH/SONET/Ethernet/IP) Time frame possibile applicability, for instance in National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) Possible relation with concepts like UCLP (User Controlled LightPath), GMPLS (Generalised Multiprotocol Label Switching) etc. Vision of place of pure optical networking A context-setting presentation is available.
11:45	Lunch
12:45	*Break-out group sessions (run in parallel)* Security and Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) Facilitator: Diego Lopez, RedIRIS This session was aimed to explore the convergence paths for the different solutions on authentication and authorisation systems that are currently in use in the academic and research community, with the vision of a global, secure and seamless support for digital identity services. Topics discussed included: Towards globally inter-working AAIs Scalability issues Management of federations and confederations Legal issues: Privacy of user attributes, liability Going beyond X.509 identity certificates Attribute-based authorisation in Grids How to put the campus infrastructures in the loop (generally as identity providers)? Full single sign-on, from network to application access A context-setting presentation is available. Interoperability and Interface Issues Facilitator: Zoran Jovanovic, AMREJ This session addressed the essential interfaces between the various stakeholders in the network-grid-application community with the aim to improving inter-working and increasing transparency. Grid interface to network resources Coordination of network resources with grid resources (eg CPU, storage) Interoperability among different grid infrastructures Standardisation of application interfaces to different grids A context-setting presentation is available.
14:30	Coffee break
15:00	*Closing Plenary* eInfrastructure: Present and Future Bernhard Fabianek, Project Officer DG INFSO, Unit F3, European Commission Presentations of findings of each break-out group: Session 1: Monitoring and Performance Enhancement Session 2: Resource Management/Allocation Session 3: Security and AAI Session 4: Interoperability and Interface Issues Wrap-up
17:00 approx.	Workshop closes