Inter-NREN meeting in Lungby 7th May 2012

Minutes

1. Welcome

Participants:

Martin Bech (MB), Uni-C
Jorgen Qvist (JQ), NORDUnet (VC) (joined 11:20, item 6.2)
Juha Oinonen (JO), CSC/Funet (VC)
Harri Kuusisto (HK), CSC/Funet (excused)
Jari Miettinen (JM), CSC/Funet (chair/sc)
Janne Niemi (JN), CSC (VC)
Marius Olafsson (MO), RHNet (excused)
Magnus Strømdal (MS), UNINETT (VC)
Olaf Schjelderup (OS), UNINETT (excused)

The meeting started at 10:03 CET

1.1 Agenda bashing

  • lunch break will be around 12:00 CET
  • agenda was reviewed. Item 6.3 Baltic Ring was added
  • Item 6.2 will be discussed after item 2.
2. Last meeting

2.1 Minutes from last meeting

  • the minutes were accepted

2.2 TODO-list

  • pending
    • IPTV mailing list: NORDUnet (Johan Berggren) is responsible for making the list. MB and JM to investigate the situation.
    • Group Wiki content list: rescheduled to June 2012
    • Notify the NRENs about the matrix update: reschedule to June 2012
    • administrative framework: rescheduled to September 2012
    • Create a list of NORDUnet caching and gateway services: rescheduled to June 2012
  • DONE
    • Filesender service: ticket is closed. The action is overtaken by events, as every NREN has either an operational Filesender instance or a deployment project going on.
    • Shared services table update: DONE
3. NREN cloud service strategy update round table

3.1 Funet

  • new CPE router service has been introduced and the first deployments are going on
  • Funet Bridge h.323 service has been announced. It's based on the NORDUnet platform.
  • Funet Team (Adobe Connect) service is under development. It's based on the NORDUnet platform.
  • DjangoRA service is investigated. It would provide a GUI for certificate requests
  • GN3 Best practices work is getting visible
  • Funet Survey is going on. The survey is mapping the satisfaction to the Funet services. The answers are due next week
  • Kajaani tendering is almost finalized. The computer room infrastructure will be installed during the summer. The site will be operational by September 2012.
  • Cloud proof of concept studies have been performed: IAAS services using OS computing components have been investigated. Funding for further work has been applied.

(lunch break)

3.2 Sunet

  • Sunet has got its new strategy approved: http://www.sunet.se/Om-sunet/SUNETs-strategi-2012-2014/SUNETs-strategi.html
  • Dropbox-like service has been requested by the users. Some storage space is asked to be located inside the home country. There exists another type of storage application, where the physical location of the servers is not so strictly outlined.
  • a tender for IAAS is being planned

3.3 FSKNet

  • FSKNet has been merged administratively to DeiC (Danish e-infrastructure Cooperation). DeiC includes networking, storage and computing services.
  • FSKNet is now responsible the Danish part of the shared Nordic supercomputer located in Iceland
  • FileSender service has been implemented
  • Cloud Strategy is going to be implemented. The strategy contains national cloud and extenal (outsourced) cloud.

3.4 RHNET

  • the was nobody present

3.5 UNINETT

  • a strategy on cloud activities ("Nansen") is being written
  • HA activities are going on and they are coupled to the cloud thinking
  • The process of writing new service descriptions of the whole service portfolio is going on. It will be finalized by July.

3.6 NORDUnet

  • NORDUnet board has discussed cloud services in their previous meeting. JQ is about the arrange a workshop for discussing a shared service layer for the research community. The preliminary date for the workshop is September 12th.
  • Media distribution service has been introduced (play.sunet.se, nordunet.tv)
4. Service Matrix

4.1 Status for the Service Matrix

  • TODO: everybody to update their part of the service matrix. JM to generate the action items.

4.2. Update of the shared services

  • The shared services table was updated collaboratively in the meeting. There was several updates.

4.3. Kalmar Union

  • the current situation was discussed
  • decision: the inter-NREN WG endorses the project and recommend that Kalmar Union managers will discuss with the NORDUnet-PR about the dissemination needs
5. Next meeting
  • The next meeting will be during the NORDUnet2012 conference in Oslo (18th to 20th September). Preferably on Tuesday September 18th morning
  • TODO: JM to arrange a room and handle practicalities
  • the last meeting on 2012 will be on Wednesday 14th of November 2012, Stockholm
6. AOB

6.1. Co-operation and outreach

  • BoF in NORDUnet2012 together with NORDUnet-PR
    • decison: no BoF will be held. Instead, an open WG meeting will be held.
  • Participation in World IPv6 Launch (http://www.worldipv6launch.org/)
    • there is no special arrangements planned at the moment
    • many NRENs have enlisted as the network operators. For qualifying 1% of the traffic should be IPv6.
    • decision: NRENs are encouraged to consider enlistment as the World IPv6 Lauch network operator
  • ToR gateway
    • decision: NORDUnet will send an inquiry to the Nordic NRENs about the deployment

6.2 Joint HA service development

  • JM summarized the Trondheim results
  • the Excel containing possible HA services was reviewed
  • TODO: JM to add two more services to the HA Excel file : e-mail reading(/storage) service and e-mail filtering(/relay) service
  • TODO: MS to redistribute the UNINETT HA material
  • JQ joined the meeting 11:20
  • the networks are so good that services are nowadays the "weakest link"
  • it was considered that the HA work needs to be attached to some actual service which has active users
  • decision: the item will be revisited in the future meetings

6.3 Baltic Ring

  • technical workshop was held in Espoo on 21st and 22nd of March
  • there is CBF plans between Lithuania-Poland and Estonia-Finland
7. Closing
  • Meeting ended at 14:42 CET.
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