July 2006 - ogsa-authz-wg

Updated version of VOMS Specification
by Vincenzo Ciaschini 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Hi to All, This is the updated document about VOMS specification I promised yesterday. Apart from a few minor language clarifications, the main changes are in the following sections: 3.4.1 clarifications about the syntax of FQANs. 3.4.2 rewritten, with a (slight) change in format. 3.5.1 explanation rewritten. The previous explanation was the exact opposite of the truth. OOPS! Also, the AC example in section5 has been substituted with a more complete one. Bye, Vincenzo

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Conference call
by David Chadwick 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Dear all I am proposing to set up a conference call to discuss the latest charter and the CVS requirements doc that have been deposited on grid forge. The alternative dates are Wed 2 Aug and Thurs 3 Aug. The preferred time is 2pm BST, 3pm European, 11pm Japan, 9am Eastern, unless someone from Pacific time wishes to take part and then it should be one hour later. Can people please circulate the list with their preferred dates/times thanks David -- ***************************************************************** David W. Chadwick, BSc PhD Professor of Information Systems Security The Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NF Skype Name: davidwchadwick Tel: +44 1227 82 3221 Fax +44 1227 762 811 Mobile: +44 77 96 44 7184 Email: D.W.Chadwick(a)kent.ac.uk Home Page: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dwc8/index.html Research Web site: http://sec.cs.kent.ac.uk Entrust key validation string: MLJ9-DU5T-HV8J PGP Key ID is 0xBC238DE5 *****************************************************************

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CVS Requirements document
by David Chadwick 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Hi all I have just uploaded to grid forge a document describing the use cases and requirements for a Credential Validation Service. It can be downloaded from here https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/projects.ogsa-authz/docman.root.authz_ser… This document will be discussed at our next teleconference and at GGF18, along with the revised charter. The next document I intend to produce is the functional components document showing the different ways in which the functional components of authorisation decision making can plug together regards David -- ***************************************************************** David W. Chadwick, BSc PhD Professor of Information Systems Security The Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NF Skype Name: davidwchadwick Tel: +44 1227 82 3221 Fax +44 1227 762 811 Mobile: +44 77 96 44 7184 Email: D.W.Chadwick(a)kent.ac.uk Home Page: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dwc8/index.html Research Web site: http://sec.cs.kent.ac.uk Entrust key validation string: MLJ9-DU5T-HV8J PGP Key ID is 0xBC238DE5 *****************************************************************

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CFP: Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing
by Frank Siebenlist 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

FYI. Note that there are some very interesting and challenging security aspects of using virtualization in distributed/grid environments. Regards, Frank. =============================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS (VTDC 2006) Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing held in conjunction with SC 06, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage. =============================================================== date: November 11, 2006, Tampa, Florida, USA SC 06: http://sc06.supercomputing.org/ VTDC 06: http://workspace.globus.org/vtdc06/ General Information The convergence of virtualization technologies and distributed computing is an exciting development and the subject of much research in both academia and industry. The VTDC workshop is intended to be a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences on the use of virtualization technologies in distributed computing, the challenges and opportunities offered by the development of virtual systems themselves, as well as case studies of application of virtualization. The scope of “virtualization technologies” includes techniques and concepts to enable virtual machines, virtual networks, virtual data, virtual storage, virtual applications and virtual instruments. The scope of “distributed computing” includes Grid-computing, cluster computing, peer-to-peer computing and mobile computing. The workshop program will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers as well as a panel with participants from academia and industry. The proceedings of VTDC 2006 will be published in the IEEE Computer Society's Digital Library. VTDC 2006 topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Using virtualization technologies for resource management and QoS assurance • Security aspects of using virtualization in a distributed environment • Virtual networks • Virtual data and storage systems • Fault tolerance in virtualization • Virtualization in P2P • Monitoring techniques in virtualization • Virtualization-based adaptive/autonomic systems • Virtual datacenters • Virtual environment factories and services • Environment configuration • Virtual machine management • Modeling (applications and systems) • Case studies of applications using virtual technologies • Deployment studies of virtualization technologies • Tools relevant to virtualization Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work that exposes a new problem, advocates a specific solution, or reports on actual experience. Papers should be submitted as full-length 8 page papers of double column text using single spaces 10pt size type on an 8.5’’x11’’ paper, as per IEEE manuscript guidelines. Paper submission instructions will be placed on the workshop web page at http://workspace.globus.org/vtdc06. Presentations will be invited based on the originality, technical merit, and topical relevance of their submissions. Please contact vtdc06(a)mcs.anl.gov with questions. Important dates August 25, 2006 – Paper submission September 29, 2006 – Notification of acceptance October 27, 2006 – Final version due Program Chairs General Chair: Jose Fortes, University of Florida Program Chair: Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory Program Committee Rob Carpenter, Intel Peter Dinda, Northwestern University Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida Marc Fiuczynski, Princeton University Ian Foster, University of Chicago Rob Gardner, HP Sebastian Goasguen, Purdue University Sverre Jarp, CERN Kevin Lai, HP Jose Moreira, IBM Ralf Ratering, Intel Frank Siebenlist, Argonne National Laboratory Dongyan Xu, Purdue University Mazin Yousif, Intel -- Frank Siebenlist franks(a)mcs.anl.gov The Globus Alliance - Argonne National Laboratory

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Update on Progress
by David Chadwick 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

Dear WG I have just updated a revised version of the charter to the web site. You can find it at http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc13647?nav=1 I have also input the minutes of the last meeting. You can find them at http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/listDocuments/projects.ogsa-authz/d… Finally, I have created a WG wiki, the first section of which is one in which user groups can add their Authz requirements. You can find this at http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.ogsa-authz/wiki/Hom… Please tell all your user groups to use this so that we can rapidly collect together all their authz requirements If you look at the revised charter we are in pretty good shape for having the first drafts of most of our deliverables ready for the next meeting in September. Von and I plan to restart the teleconferences again soon. We lost momentum after the last meeting when the first teleconference was missed and we all fell out of sync as a result. This doesn't mean that work wasn't going on in the background, but rather that it just wasn't visible to the group. We will contact you again within the week to give you a date and time of the next teleconference. In the meantime, if you have any comments on the revised charter, please send them to the list regards David ***************************************************************** David W. Chadwick, BSc PhD Professor of Information Systems Security The Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NF Tel: +44 1227 82 3221 Fax +44 1227 762 811 Mobile: +44 77 96 44 7184 Email: D.W.Chadwick(a)kent.ac.uk Home Page: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dwc8/index.html Research Web site: http://sec.cs.kent.ac.uk Entrust key validation string: MLJ9-DU5T-HV8J PGP Key ID is 0xBC238DE5 *****************************************************************

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