The TERENA Technical Programme

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The TERENA Technical Programme

• Claudio Allocchio
• VP Technical Programme
• TERENA General Assembly
• Prague, 24-25 October 2002

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Terms of Reference

• The scope of the TERENA Technical Programme is
• To supports joint European work in developing,
  evaluating, testing, integrating and promoting
  new networking, middleware and application
  technologies.
• To bring together technical specialists from
  TERENA member organisations and the wider
  European research networking community.
• To organise topical workshops and ad-hoc meetings
  to exchange experiences and information, and to
  plan for joint activities.
• To liaises with similar activities in other
  continents.

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Terms of Reference (2)

• Inside the Technical Programme we have the
• Technical Advisory Council,
• TERENA Technical Committee,
• a number of Special Interest Areas,
• Task Forces,
• Projects.

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Technical Advisory Council

• The TAC consists of representatives of the TERENA
  member organisations ( the senior technical
  managers of those organisations), the Task Force
  leaders, the VP Technical Programme, the Chief
  Technical Officer and the Secretary General.
• The TAC is a main instrument for the TERENA
  member organisations to steer the direction of
  the technical work under the TERENA umbrella.

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Technical Advisory Council

• The TAC meets at least once a year to
• Review the progress of the Technical Programme
• Advise on the future direction of the Technical
  Programme
• Propose new initiatives
• Exchange information about networking activities
• Propose TTC members
• At least once every two years, the TAC also
  reviews the Special Interest Areas (done on
  Monday June 3rd 2002)
• A stronger role for the TAC all year round?

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TERENA Technical Committee

• The TTC co-ordinates and supervises the Technical
  Programme. It has the functions to
• Create and dissolve Task Forces
• Consider project proposals and recommend to the
  TEC whether they should be approved as TERENA
  projects and, if applicable, whether they should
  receive TERENA funding
• Assess the progress of Task Forces and projects

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TERENA Technical Committee

• The current composition of the TTC is
• Claudio Allocchio - VP Technical Programme
• Roberto Barbera - GRID
• David Chadwick - Directories
• Christoph Graf - Security
• Dimitrios Kalogeras - High Speed Networking
• Olav Kvittem - Diffserv and Quality of Service
• Ton Verschuren - Middleware
• John Dyer - Chief Technical Officer
• Valentino Cavalli - acting Chief Technical
  Officer
• Karel Vietsch - Secretary General
• Liaison with US-MACE Committee
• Brian Gilmore

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Special Interest Areas

• The TEC may create a maximum of six Special
  Interest Areas, usually based on the
  recommendation of the TAC. The Special Interest
  Areas
• determine the focus of the TERENA Technical
  Programme
• offer a forum for discussion and exchange of
  information
• provide a platform for creating new Task Forces
  and projects

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Special Interest Areas

• The current Special Interest Areas (June 2002)
  are
• Lower Layers (IPv6, MPLS, VPNs etc.)
• Quality of Service (including DiffServ)
• Videoconferencing and Streaming (Including IP
  Telephony)
• Content Delivery, Indexing and Searching
• Middleware
• Mobility
• In addition, Grid and Campus coordination across
  the SIAs

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Task Forces and Projects

• A Task Force is a focused group with a specific
  charter, which defines its objectives, its
  lifetime and the deliverables that the group will
  produce
• A Minor Project is a limited activity that
  produces specific deliverables within a few
  months and that is (partially) funded directly
  from TERENAs own resources
• A Major Project is a larger activity covering a
  longer period. Major projects are funded by
  additional contributions from TERENA member
  organisations and possibly other sources
• An External Project is an activity in which
  TERENA staff members themselves take an active
  part and that is co-funded by third parties such
  as the EU

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Lower Layers and QoSTF-NGN

• TF-NGN investigates the suitability of advanced
  networking technologies for future implementation
  in research networks in Europe. The work includes
  the piloting of new services on GÉANT.
• Very active Task Force with a large membership
  and a large number of activity areas the updated
  list of activities is in tune with the GÉANT
  roadmap for year 3 and includes
• intra/inter-domain Network Monitoring
  Infrastructure including the definition and
  organisation of a Performance Emergency Response
  Team (PERT)
• Optical developments
• Multicast
• IPv6 deployment
• Support for Layer 2 VPNs

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Lower Layers and QoS6NET project

• Very large FP5 project for a large-scale
  international IPv6 testbed. January 2002
  December 2004. Total estimated budget 17 million
  euro.
• More than 30 participants, the consortium was
  extended with the national research networks of
  Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic and ETRI,
  Korea.
• Latest news Full IPv6 test network operational,
  tests are being scheduled now. Project review in
  Paris on 30 October 2002
• TERENAs role
• Leading the workpackage on dissemination and
  exploitation of results
• Maintaining the 6NET website (IPv6 enabled)
  www.6net.org
• Organising workshops (Joint 6NET-Euro6IX
  workshop, Limerick 5 June 2002, next one May-June
  2003)

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Lower Layers and QoS6LINK project

• Small accompanying measure in FP5 to support the
  IPv6 cluster activities. March 2002 February
  2005. Total estimated budget 1 million euro.
• Project partners are
• BT Exact, Telscom, T-Nova, University of
  Southampton, Consulintel, University College
  London, Polytechnical University of Madrid,
  Motorola, DANTE, TERENA, Universidad Carlos III
  de Madrid
• TERENAs role is very small 1 man-month per year
• Contribution to IPv6 Cluster meeting, next one 6
  November 2002
• www.6link.org

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Lower Layers and QoSTEQUILA project

• FP5 project to specify, implement and test a set
  of service definition and traffic engineering
  tools to obtain QoS guarantees across IP
  networks. Total estimated budget 5.9 million
  euro. January 2000 June 2002, extended until
  October 2002.
• Project participants are
• Alcatel, Algosystems, France Telecom RD, Global
  Crossing, University of Surrey, IMEC, NTU Athens,
  University College London. TERENA is assistant
  contractor to UCL.
• TERENAs role
• Maintaining the TEQUILA website
  www.ist-tequila.org
• Organising workshops (last one in Maastricht on
  14-15 May 2002)

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Lower Layers and QoSSCAMPI project

• Large FP5 project to develop a SCAlable
  Monitoring Platform for the Internet. April 2002
  September 2004. Total estimated budget 5.5
  million euro.
• Project participants are
• TERENA, IMEC, FORTH, Leiden University, Netikos,
  UNINETT, CESNET, FORTHNET, 4PLUS, Siemens
• TERENAs role
• Project co-ordinator
• Leading the workpackage on project management and
  dissemination
• Maintaining the SCAMPI website
• Organising workshops (1st Workshop will be held
  in Amsterdam in January 2003)

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Videoconferencing and Streaming

• IP telephony
• Last meeting combined with TF-STREAM in Limerick
  on 2 June 2002
• Great interest in TERENA coordinating the
  production of an IP Telephony Cookbook
• Major project proposal submitted to TTC in
  September 2003

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Videoconferencing and StreamingIP Telephony
Cokbook Project (1)

• Project objectives
• overview of available technologies and trends for
  the near future
• models / scenarios for deploying IP telephony and
  building a IP Telephony infrastructure
• guidelines on
• IP Telephony protocols and basic services set up
• how to set-up advanced services
• how to connect an IP Telephony island to a wider
  dialing plan
• regulatory and legal aspects
• experiences on interoperability of IP Telephony
  equipment
• information about IP telephony projects in Europe

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Videoconferencing and StreamingIP Telephony
Cokbook Project (2)

• Cookbook contents
•  Introduction
• Technology Background
• IP Telephony Scenarios
• Setting up Basic services
• Setting up Advanced Services (telephony-centric)
• Setting up Value-Added Service (additional to
  tel. services)
• Global telephony integration
• Regulatory / Legal considerations
• A) European IP Telephony Projects
• B) IP Telephony Hardware/Software

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Videoconferencing and StreamingIP Telephony
Cokbook Project (3)

• Main partners
• University of Pisa, TZI University of Bremen, FhG
  Fokus
• Project contributors
• CESNET, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, GRNET,
  SURFnet
• Project size
• 11 months duration with a total of 11
  person-months.
• Requested financial contribution 64,800 Eur
• TTC (September 2002) recommended
• Relevant to Community needs
• Fund as major project with 10 kEUR funding from
  TERENA and remaining funding from number of other
  parties

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MiddlewareSecurity TF-CSIRT

• TF-CSIRT provides a platform for information
  exchange and collaboration between Computer
  Security Incident Response Teams from NRENs,
  industry and government. Very active Task Force
  with a large membership. Some 30 CSIRTs actively
  participate, meetings have some 50 attendees.
  Latest meeting held in Syros, GR on 26-27
  September 2002 .
• Ongoing activities include
• The task force has established a working group on
  best-current-practice in CSIRTs to assist in the
  establishment of new CSIRTs
• Clearinghouse for incident handling
• IODEF Pilot Project results expected at the end
  of 2002 (ECSIRT.net)

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MiddlewareSecurity Trusted Introducer pilot
service

• TI provides a form of accreditation of CSIRTs,
  thereby assisting the development of a Web of
  Trust. Currently 30 CSIRTs accredited and 79
  listed.
• The Trusted Introducer continues as a permanent
  service starting from 1 September 2002, with
  TERENA continuing to provide clearinghouse
  function.
• A meeting of accredited CSIRTs was organised in
  Syros, Greece on 26 September 2002 .

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MiddlewareSecurity TRANSITS project

• FP5 project to provide TRAining of Network
  Security Incident Teams Staff. Started on 1 July
  2002, will run for 3 years. Total estimated
  budget 250,000 euro.
• Will develop and maintain course materials to
  train staff members of new CSIRTs and new staff
  members of existing CSIRTs. EU funding covers
  logistics costs, expenses of teachers and
  includes small budget to support participants
  from poor countries.
• Project participants are TERENA and UKERNA
• Scheduled Training Courses
• Oegstgeest, the Netherlands from 31 October 1
  November 2002
• Warsaw, Poland from 27-28 May 2003

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MiddlewareDirectories

• TF-LSD investigates the usability of LDAPv3 as a
  base for a wide range of Internet services
• A proposal for extending and/or re-chartering
  and/or merging with TF-AACE will be discussed at
  the next meeting in Stockholm on 27 November 2002
• Work on deliverables continuing until
  re-chartering
• Project Adding Certificate Retrieval to
  OpenLDAP
• Progressing on schedule and approaching now final
  deliverables and results
• Project DEEP2 Schema for the European Academia
  (EuroEduPerson)
• First result of Questionnaire currently being
  analysed, more responses will be accepted until
  TF-LSD meeting in November 2002
• Project Directory Schema Registry
• Contract started on 1 August 2002, will run for
  12 months

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MiddlewareAuthentication and authorisation

• TF-AACE, the Task Force for Authentication,
  Authorisation Coordination for Europe was
  officially established in April 2002. The next
  meeting will be in Stockholm on 27 November 2002,
  preceded by a TF-AACE workshop on 26 November and
  followed by the Nordic GNOMIS workshop on 28-29
  November.
• Work items include
• Defining interoperability requirements for
  European academic PKIs, including guidelines for
  PKI deployment at NRENs
• Defining common requirements for
  inter-institutional authentication and
  authorisation, providing a framework for
  harmonising NREN initiatives
• Investigation/comparison of use of hierarchical
  and bridge PKI/CA and making recommendation for
  European NRENs

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Mobility

• Architecture to support roaming of students
  between different NRENs
• Chartering new TERENA task force
• Meeting on 28 October 2002, Amsterdam
• Proposed Work
• Study available AuthN AuthZ techniques
• Web-based, RADIUS802.1x, VPNs
• Study support of next generation equipment for
  MobileIP (v4 and v6)
• Set up a test bed for inter-NREN AuthN AuthZ
• Liaise with TF-AACE and TF-NGN

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SEEREN project

• Large FP5 Accompanying Measure to support
  South-Eastern European Research Education
  Networking. Fall 2002 18 months. Total
  estimated budget about 1.3 million euro.
• Project participants
• GRNET (Co-ordinator), HUNGARNET, RoEduNet, DANTE,
  TERENA
• Subcontractors are NRENs of
• Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYROM, FRY
• TERENAs role
• Contribute to analyse technical operational
  requirements (0.09 PM up to month 3)
• Contribute to dissemination activities,
  brochures, workshops, liaisons (1.13 PM)

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GRIDs

• TERENA staff and TTC closely following
  developments, e.g. in Global Grid Forum and
  events (iGRID 2002), exchanging information and
  knowledge
• TERENA disseminating information to bridge the
  GRID and the European research networking
  community
• Proposing to participate in FP6 GRID initiatives
  as a major dissemination partner (see also slides
  on new activities)

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GNRTGuide to Network Resource Tools

• A completely revised, modularly structured new
  edition of the GNRT is currently being produced.
• Many sections are available for review, a few
  sections are being prepared now
• First preview expected end 2002
• maybe a new title if we publish again the book?

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".eu" TLD

• We discussed at the TEC about the involvement
  that TERENA should have into the management of
  the coming ".eu" TLD.
• We strongly believe that TERENA role should be to
  represent the RE community into its Policy Board.

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Activities in FP6

• EGEE
• GRID, Dissemination activity
• ASTON
• Optical networking testbed, Co-ordination and
  dissemination activities
• C2NRE2
• Network of Excellence, Co-ordination

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FP6 - EGEE

• What is EGEE ?
• An Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (III) to
  create and deploy Grid Technologies for e-Science
  and Industry
• Objectives
• integrating Grid technological developments from
  across Europe
• establishing a Europe-wide Grid infrastructure
  for science and industry with a focus on
  heterogeneity and interoperability
• enabling the creation of e-Science applications
  from across the scientific and industrial
  spectrum
• ensuring the timely delivery of the projects
  programme of work, guided by the needs of
  academic and industrial partners.

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FP6 - EGEE (2)

• Participants (up to now)
• Members from current Grid initiatives in Europe,
  Research bodies, Universities, NRENs,
• ( check the Position Papers at
• http//egee-ei.web.cern.ch/egee-ei/work_oct02.html
  )
• TERENA proposed role
• Major Disseminating partner in the Consortium
• A very good method to easily bridge between the
  TERENA TFs activities and results relevant to
  Grids (expecially Middleware) and the ongoing
  activities in the Grid projects

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FP6 - EGEE (3)

• Where TERENA fits?
• EGEE proposes a large number of Dissemination
  Acitivites, both to the RE community and to the
  SMEs, and more.
• TERENA will take over the training and
  dissemination activities to the RE community,
  including the NRENs, Research Organisations and
  Univerisities, complementing the one towards the
  SMEs and more.

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FP6 - EGEE (4)

• TTC and TEC recommend that TERENA takes part in
  the proposal, and joins the Consortium,
  partecipating as a contractor when the
  appropriate FP6 call is issued.
• Why?
• It follows the TAC and GA recommendation to be
  involved and closely follow Grid activities
• It involves activities in line with the
  recommendation to "close the gap" between the
  Campus and End users and the NRENs activities
• It contributes the large TERENA TFs know how to
  the other GRID active partners in a natural and
  "internal" way.

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FP6 - EGEE (5)

• How?
• Sending a declaration of intents to the EGEE
  coordinator
• (Fabrizio Gagliardi, CERN)
• Other questions
• Costs?
• Labour?
• We need to see FP6 call in order to know the
  details.

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FP6 - ASTON

• What is ASTON ?
• A project aimed to study the next generation of
  lower layers (mostly optical) networking, which
  also fits quite well into the future needs of
  GÉANT. Some activities fit into the III pictures,
  too.
• Activities
• 1. Building a pan-European testbed infrastructure
• 2. Bandwidth on Demand (BoD)
• 3. Optical circuit (packet) switching
• 4. IP/Optical Network Management
• 5. Transport at 40 - 80 Gbit/s and higher
• 6. 10 Gbit/s Ethernet over long distances

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FP6 - ASTON (2)

• GÉANT needs
• 10Gb Ethernet over long distance
• Simple layer2 provisioning
• Bandwidth on demand
• 40Gb line-speed
• Integrate IP and Optical management

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FP6 - ASTON (3)

• Participants (up to now)
• Members of TF-NGN, but interests expressed also
  from equipment providers (Juniper, Cisco,
  Alcatel), carriers and universities
• TERENA proposed role
• Project Coordination and Dissemination Activities
• but open for possible other Project
  Coordination offers.

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FP6 - ASTON (4)

• TTC and TEC recommend that ASTON project is a
  major interest of the TERENA community, and we
  should be ready to submit a FP6 proposal in the
  appropriate area as soon as this is possible.
• More over there is currently a significant
  momentum in this field, and, despite the problems
  in the Carriers industry which made ASTON focus
  change into a FP6 long term project, a very
  active group of TF-NGN members are already
  organising Work Packages and structuring the
  activity.

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FP6 - ASTON (5)

• How?
• TF-NGN Optical activities (leader Victor Reijs)
• Bandwidth on Demand, (Michal Przybilsky, PSNC)
• 10 GigE over long-distance, (Stanislav Sima,
  CESNET)
• Transport at 40 - 80 Gbit/s and higher (Mauro
  Campanella GARR)
• FP6 Research Networking Testsbeds (summer/fall
  2003)
• FP6 III (December 2002) for some activities like
  BoD

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FP6 - C2NRE2

• What is C2NRE2 ?
• The Expression of Interest which TERENA sent out
  immediately after the June 2002 GA, to declare
  its interest in creating and coordination
  Networks of Excellence.
• Objectives
• To create proactive collaborations among European
  research organisations, campuses and top experts
  in the advanced networking activities.
• to create a Network of Excellence to pull
  together the top experts in the following areas
• ? Lower Layers Technology (Ipv6, MPLS, VPNs,
  Optical,)
• ? Quality of Service (DIFFserv, Premium
  Services,)
• ? Video-Conferencing, Streaming and IP Telephony
• ? Content Delivery, Indexing and Searching
  (Portals, Semantic WEB,)
• ? Middleware (Security, Authentication,
  Authorisation, )
• ? Mobility (IP Roaming, Users Mobility,)
• ? GRIDs

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FP6 - C2NRE2 (2)

• TERENA proposed role
• exactly what its Terms of Reference are aimed
  to
• And to cluster a number of proposals for NoE
  which just cover one specific field, and overlaps
  with the existing TERENA TFs and activities
  (examples in optical networking, Middleware,)

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FP6 - C2NRE2 (3)

• TTC and TEC believes that the NoE are a quite
  good instrument to enhance the already ongoing
  activities in the TERENA SIAs, extending their
  penetration inside the campuses and research
  organisations, as suggested also by the GA and
  TAC discussion in June 2002.

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FP6 - C2NRE2 (4)

• How?
• Still a number of details being investigated
• Taking contacts with "single field" NoE proposals
  wich are being made public

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Questions?