The TERENA 3years strategy

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The TERENA 3-years strategy

• David Willians
• President
• Claudio Allocchio
• VP Technical Programme
• TERENA GA - Zagreb May 22-23 2003

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3 years rolling cycle

• Technical directions discussed at the TNC time
• First tech/financial evaluation of projects
  before the summer
• Detailed budget plans by October for approval by
  GA
• Review of project and results at next TNC
• Aims to better integrate technical and financial
  planning

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Strategy

• Be active in SIAs - typically via TFs
• And in FP6 projects where TERENA presence would
  be useful
• In addition, pursue much closer relations with
  academic IT communities
• Any other SERENATE outcomes?
• Nothing comes for free, including FP6 projects!

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Special Interest Areas

• Lower Layers (IPv6, MPLS, VPNs etc.)
• Quality of Service (including DiffServ)
• Videoconferencing and Streaming (Including IP
  Telephony)
• Content Delivery, Indexing and Searching
• Middleware (security, AAA)
• Mobility
• Grid and Campus coordination, across all the SIAs

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GÉANT next generation

• GÉANT next phase
• Proposal submitted by NRENs
• TERENA and DANTE as proposal participants
• TERENA role in dissemination?
• TERENA to contribute other work items, including
  TFs activities
• TERENA and DANTE as members of the NRENs
  Consortium

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FP6 projects - GEANT2

• The key FP6 project for the community
• Inside the project we should ensure that there
  are resources for-
• Compendium
• (in 4 years time) next SERENATE
• Human "network of excellence" - funding for
  "TF-NGN"-like activities - not at all limited to
  lower layers
• What else ?????
• Localise measuement performance tools? (I2)

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FP6 projects - others

• EGEE
• Already submitted
• GARDEN and GRANDE
• Discussed at session 2c
• General support, with request for more
  information
• Complementary - can they be merged or work
  together more closely?
• When testbeds are in production they should
  become accessible for NREN trials via GEANT2
• TERENA encouraged to participate at 100 funding

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Other FP6 Projects

• 6NEXUS (Network of Excellence for IPv6)
• TERENA contacted as dissemination partner and
  workshop organiser
• MOME (Monitoring and Measurement cluster)
• TERENA contacted as project coordinator

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Other "smaller" projects

• PAPI/PERMIS integration
• Well received
• Must be done!
• TERENA should contribute 10K
• Other (not ONLY NRENs, ALSO PROJECTS) find the
  rest (40K)

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TERENA Added Value

• On pan-european level
• Enable real life proof of concept, including
  first deployment of leading-edge products
• Help standardisation

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Closer relations withAcademic IT

• Euro compatible AAA and Middleware deployment
• More uniform approach to IT applications (GRIDs,
  Metadata, Data sharing, )
• This MIGHT develop into an FP6 Integrated Project
  (October 2004?)
• It will need a LOT of preparation
• It needs to start with a SERIOUS workshop (6
  months)

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SERENATE issues

• Are there any specific actions which will result
  from SERENATE?
• The most likely area where we could have an
  impact is in trying to help reduce the impact of
  the "digital divide" inside Europe.
• Not so much directly technical as
  techno-political - but it would take some
  resources

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Suggestions

• Even more users' support/outreach
• NRENs management workshop?
• Understand the communities we connect and their
  requirements (in order not to be ovetaken by
  their decisions)

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Questions?