Inter-NREN meeting in Stockholm 22nd January 2014 (DRAFT)

Minutes

1. Welcome

Participants:

  • Martin Bech (MB), DeiC
  • Jorgen Qvist (JQ), NORDUnet
  • Harri Kuusisto (HK), CSC/Funet
  • Jari Miettinen (JM), CSC/Funet (chair/sec)
  • Marius Olafsson (MO), RHNet (excused)
  • Magnus Strømdal (MS), UNINETT (excused)
  • Vidar Faltinsen (VF), UNINETT
  • Per Nihlén (PN), SUNET
  • Lars Fischer (LF), NORDUnet
  • Leif Johansson (LJ), SUNET

Site: NORDUnet office, Tulegatan 11 Stockholm

The meeting started at 10:00 CET

1.1 Agenda bashing
  • the agenda was reviewed and a time plan was made
2. Last meeting

2.1 Minutes from last meeting

  • JM summarized the highlights of the Trondheim meeting

2.2 TODO-list

  • the item was tabled to be revisited later as some decisions of this meeting can make some actions obsolete
3. Short update for the last 3 months (approximately 3 main issues)

3.1 Funet

  • HK gave an update about Box service deployment in Funet. The service introduction is taking more time than expected. The discussions between CSC and Funet member organisations are ongoing.
  • there was exchange of views about introducing the service to the users
  • bi-annual Funet customer questionnaire is being prepared. The survey is going out in February 2014. The survey gives information about the future service needs. The results will influence heavily to the development activities.
  • GN4 planning has been started. A CSC internal kick-off meeting has been arranged. The expected schedule is very tight.
  • Funet technical seminar and workshops 2014 will be arranged during the spring as a single event. The event is in the planning phase.

3.2 Sunet

  • SUNET has been working on the IaaS procurement preparations.
  • There has been a tender out for the course capture. The tender failed and the procurement was cancelled. The procurement has continued using the negotiation procedure.
  • project and course management tools procurement is going on. Competitive dialogue method is applied.
  • SUNET is taking part to the tender on mobility services in GN3plus. DANTE is running the project. Five NRENs are participating the call.
  • several NIFs have been prepared for the GN4 preparations
  • New fiber network for SUNET is being planned. The new network is likely to be available after mid-2015.
  • A common (joint) student identity provider is being built. The service is produced in-house and it will act as back-end for the institutes. The back-end might be useful to other NRENs as well.
  • A new project to build OS and open hardware based cryptographic platform is in preparation. Project will likely be internationally funded. The end result will be a HSM type of system for use e.g. in DNSSEC root services (http://cryptech.is). The project is run as an open source consortium managed by SUNET. The initiative is described as a GN4 NIF.

3.3 DeiC

  • DeiC is planning a network upgrade as the current equipment is approaching the end-of-life and capacity limits are drawing near. The demand for new lightpaths has been strong.
  • MB explained the research and education administration in the Danish government system
  • MB introduced the ServiceInfo service. New features; the registration of the non-WAYF users and the ability to accept other service providers (in addition to DeiC) are being developed. MB suggested if the Nordic NRENs could be act as service providers or if Nordic institutions could register to the DeiC service.
  • A national supercomputing center has been introduced by DeiC
  • A call for local computing equipment has been arranged. The call has been tedious and it has roused a lot of interest.

3.4 RHNET

  • RHNET delivered an update by e-mail. There's no special news.

3.5 UNINETT

  • UNINETT has been reorganised on January 1st. VF gave an update. UNINETT has three main departments now. Vidar is the director of the research network department, which has six groups
  • eduroam at the airports is now a production service. The service is produced in co-operation with AVINOR and it covers 18 airports in Norway.
  • WLAN guest access service is being developed. The service integrates with the customer infrastructure and enables Wi-Fi guest access to visitors for a limited amount of time. The logging, authorization and authentication aspects of the service were discussed.
  • UNINETT CERT will be TI-certified quite soon
  • eCampus programme is going to digital assessment for exams etc. A working group has been established. Joint projects have been started and several Best Practise Documents are prepared.
  • Several smaller initiatives were introduced, which caused interest. A documentation database and MS Lync service were discussed.

3.6 NORDUnet

  • IaaS procurement is progressing. JQ described the status. If everything goes as planned the procurement will be finished by April 2014.
  • Project hosting service is under development. A framework and procedures are being worked on by the approval of the NORDUnet board. The FileSender and Cryptech projects are the first ones which will use the model.
  • BoD service has beed defined and approved. The implementation project is going on, which aims to a production service. The BoD service is planned to be available by the end of 2014.
  • consolidated Adobe Connect and the MCU statistics are now available. JQ summarized the usage with graphs. They show considerably large use.
  • videoconferencing service: The next development steps will support and ease the usage behind firewalls and the SIP integration.
  • Adobe Connect: adding SIP support is the next step
  • NORDUnet completed the IP equipment tender. A testbed is built first, after which the real (production) installations will be done. The project schedule concerning Nordic installations will be available in few months. The 100Gbps connectivity will be available after the upgrade.
  • the Winter Olympic games may likely induce traffic in the Nordic networks. Some measures are taken to improve the streaming performance, e.g. additional capacity. The streaming service providers have been contacted. The practical streaming of big events in general was discussed
4. Discussion about the role of inter-NREN in the future
  • LF gave a presentation on the views of the NORDUnet board about the joint Nordic positions
  • HK gave an overview on the CSC organisational change and its meaning on the inter-NREN group work
  • Decision: the activity will be merged to the NORDUnet CTO-Forum.
    • The membership of the CTO-Forum is decided by the NREN management.
    • Lars Fischer will be the chair of the CTO-Forum
    • Jorgen Qvist will be responsible for the CTO-Forum meeting practical arrangements and the secretary work
    •  CTO-Forum meetings will be in-between the NORDUnet board meetings, four times a year approximately one month before the board meeting.
    • The meetings will be face-to-face with a VC option.
    • The agenda must to be available two weeks in advance
    • Minutes will be publicly available also in the future
  • New action point: LF, JQ and JM to draft a new charter to the CTO-Forum
  • New action point: LF and JQ to update the CTO-Forum mailing list
  • LJ left the meeting 15:05
5. Shared development exchange
  • JQ has investigated the implementation together with the financial administration: especially practical reporting and bookkeeping. The shared decision-making will be opt in/opt out for each NREN.
  • there was discussion on how to use the development exchange in practice
  • New action point: JQ to rewrite the description and distribute to the list
  • Decision: the setup will be presented to the CTO-Forum
6. Next meetings
  • February 27th 2014 10:00-12:00 CET (VC)
  • May 13th 2014 10:00-15:00 CET, Copenhagen (NORDUnet office)
  • Sep 4th 2014 10:00-15:00 CET, Espoo (CSC office)
  • Nov 20th 2014, 10:00-15:00 CET, Stockholm (NORDUnet office)
7. AOB

7.1 Project proposal process for GN4

  • the item was tabled

7.2  Position of Nordic R&E networks regarding the changing European landscape of organizations

  • MB summarized the current situation to the group and there was a discussion
  • VF left 15:38

7.3 Mobile connectivity

  • the item was tabled

7.4. Leif's back-end presentation

  • LJ gave an additional short presentation on the identity provider back-end as there was a lot of interest during the SUNET update
8. Closing
  • Meeting ended at 15:48 CET.

 

 

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