Discussion after the BOF meeting has brought forward the following
items related to the OGSA AuthN topic:
1) In addition to describing community practices for existing methods
of authentication, a desire exists to put forward an assessment or
evaluation of these with respect to each other and/or other methods
that might be proposed. This comparison should include the following:
- conformance to existing external standards vs. need for
additional documentation
- existing implementations (characteristics, number, etc.)
- performance factors (payload size, communication handshake
frequency, etc.)
- requirements in terms of component and/or certificate
distribution prior to use
This evaluation can either be done as a separate document or be
incorporated into one of the other defined document outputs of the
group. Thoughts, reactions and additional factors for the evaluation
are welcome.
2) The group needs an additional chair if approved. Volunteers are
welcome. (If enough people volunteer as chair, maybe I can just
contribute as an author!)
Thanks for everyone's contributions and for the feedback.
Alan
Alan Sill, Ph.D
TIGRE Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center
Adjunct Professor of Physics
TTU
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