Forwarded message on behalf of Thijs.Metsch@dlr.de: ----- Begin forwarded message ----- Dear administrator, Could you allow the message attached below to be posted to the security-area mailinglist? I would like to address as much people as possible to be informed about the upcoming research in the Firewall Issue research group. Greetings from Germany, - Thijs Metsch -----Attached Message----- Hi @all, Let me first introduce me as the new editor of the next documents for the Firewall Issue Research Group. In these next documents we want to address the following topics: - Requirements Analyses - In our first documents we pointed out several use cases which showed that firewalls are a problem in Grids. The next step is to put down the requirements mankind has when using Grids in firewalled environments. - Existing solutions - We would like to summarize existing solutions to solve firewall issue. This includes the analyses of the solutions and the possible porting issue when using them in Grids. - New Solutions - As a second topic we want to talk about new upcoming solutions like Protocols, Proxies or similar. Afterwards we'll have a look if they meet the requirements stated above. For all those points stated above we would like to invite you to post your ideas to our wiki. The wiki can be found here: http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.fi-rg/wiki/HomeP age. Please feel free to join in and help us on our next documents! A help on how to use the wiki can also be found on the gridforge site. For those who already posted a solution: could you put them in the wiki? Please feel free to send this email around to all people (Especially firewall vendors) who might be interested in this topic. Greetings from Germany, -Thijs --- Thijs Metsch Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) Simulations- und Softwaretechnik (SISTEC) Koeln-Porz Tel: (02203) 601-3859 http://www.dlr.de/sc Fax: (02203) 601-3070 mailto:thijs.metsch@dlr.de ----- End forwarded message ----- -- "So much time, so little to do..." -- Garfield