[Nsi-wg] NSI WG call Wed Sep 7, 2011

John MacAuley john.macauley at surfnet.nl
Thu Sep 8 07:13:23 CDT 2011


We agreed that the NSA with authenticate using http basic authentication.  The user credentials are in the NSI message.

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On 2011-09-08, at 2:55 AM, Tomohiro Kudoh <t.kudoh at aist.go.jp> wrote:

> Hi John, Jerry,
> 
> I would like to confirm decisions.
> 
> - We will use http and we will *NOT* use session authentication. That is,
> there is no username/password for http sessions.
> 
> - We will use username in the NSI message attribute. The username
> should be "jrv at internet2.edu" (non case sensitive)
> 
> Are these ok?
> 
> Tomohiro
> 
> 
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 22:42:00 -0400
> John MacAuley <john.macauley at surfnet.nl> wrote:
> 
>> For the STP I prefer lowercase.
>> 
>>> #1 urn:ogf:network:stp:Aruba:A1
>> 
>> This is the correct nsa for Aruba.
>> 
>>> #3 urn:ogf:network:nsa:Aruba-OpenNSA
>> 
>>> In the John's mail, OpenDRAC returned:
>> 
>> Sorry this was my mistake as I returned their real names instead of the pretend ones for the demo.  These were hardcoded in a test program.
>> 
>> John.
>> 
>> On 2011-09-07, at 10:34 PM, Atsuko Takefusa wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> May I confirm the descriptions of NSA and STP?
>>> It is really important to interoperate with the seven different
>>> implementations.
>>> 
>>> Which is the correct "stpId" description?
>>> #1 urn:ogf:network:stp:Aruba:A1
>>> #2 urn:ogf:network:STP:Aruba:A1
>>> #3 other?
>>> 
>>> Which is the correct "requester/providerNSA" description?
>>> #1 urn:ogf:network:nsa:Aruba
>>> #2 urn:ogf:network:NSA:Aruba
>>> #3 urn:ogf:network:nsa:Aruba-OpenNSA
>>> #4 other?
>>> 
>>> In the John's mail, OpenDRAC returned:
>>> <requesterNSA>urn:ogf:network:nsa:ferb.surfnet.nl</requesterNSA>
>>> <providerNSA>urn:ogf:network:nsa:phineas.surfnet.nl</providerNSA>
>>> <sourceSTP>
>>> <stpId>urn:ogf:network:stp:Aruba:Aiden</stpId>
>>> </sourceSTP>
>>> <destSTP>
>>> <stpId>urn:ogf:network:stp:Aruba:Ashley</stpId>
>>> </destSTP>
>>> It will be modified at demo?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Atsuko
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2011/9/8 Jerry Sobieski <jerry at nordu.net>:
>>>> Attendees-
>>>> Jerry Sobieski (NORDUnet)
>>>> Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST)
>>>> Henrik Thostrup Jensen (NORDUnet)
>>>> Jeroen van der Ham (UvA)
>>>> Redek Krzywania (PSNC)
>>>> Michal Balcerkiewicz (PSNC)
>>>> John MacAuley (SURFnet)
>>>> 
>>>> Demo presentation at Venue
>>>> 
>>>> - We have 5 monitors and desks in the demo space at the art museum.  We have
>>>> a 90 minute formal demonstration presentation window Tuesday from 3:45pm to
>>>> 5:15pm.   The rest of the time we expect to have access to the demo room for
>>>> continued testing.
>>>> ***AI:  Jerry:  Confirm with RNP that the room will be available Wed and Thu
>>>> after the window as well as leading up to the demonstration window.
>>>> 
>>>> - The implementation teams are asked to continue interop testing and to
>>>> capture log files as they run the Plugfest Challenge tests.  These log files
>>>> can be annotated to show the protocol messaging.   And these annotated logs
>>>> can be presented at the venue in the demo room in addition to the live runs,
>>>> and/or as part of a short PPT from each implementation team.
>>>> 
>>>> - We want to make sure we have as many live runs prepared for the demo
>>>> window as is practical.  But we do not expect all the Challenges to be ready
>>>> or to be presented live.  The anotated logs can be used to complement the
>>>> live runs.   We can allocate monitors as appropriate for the tests
>>>> scenarios.
>>>> 
>>>> NSA Implementation Status
>>>> I hope I summarized this close enough...
>>>> 
>>>> - OpenNSA (NORDUnet - Henrik)
>>>>    - mostly all functional, self interoperable (Chal #1 works)
>>>>    - encountering many interoperability issues within the MTL (WS* related
>>>> issues)
>>>>    - some testing with dynamicKL, but encountered some SOAP issues not sure
>>>> how to resolve.
>>>>    - Need some input from JM.
>>>> - AutoBAHN
>>>>    - FUnctional, have had some issue in an office move(?)
>>>>    - Expect to begin interop testing very soon
>>>>    - Need updated topology
>>>>    - No WS issues experienced with dynKL
>>>> - G-LAMBDA (AIST)
>>>>    - Almost ready for interop test...
>>>>    - some testing with G-LAMBDA KDDI Labs
>>>>    - authentication is an outstanding issue
>>>> - DRAC
>>>>    - John is coding like a mad man.
>>>> 
>>>> *** Decided:  For Rio, we will not require session authentication between
>>>> NSAs.  HTTP only.
>>>>        For SC we *will require* conformant authentication, HTTPS.
>>>> *** For Rio, service authorization will be basic user based authorization.
>>>>        The user will be "jrv at internet2.edu".   Case in-sensitive.   This
>>>> string my be authorized by the NSA however they wish, but all requests as
>>>> part of the Plugfest will use this user credential.
>>>> If the user is present, any/all service requests will be authorized.   If
>>>> not present, or any other user is present, service requests will be denied.
>>>> 
>>>> Topology
>>>> 
>>>> The current topology is the Rio Ring of 7 networks.  Version 1.1c is
>>>> latest.   However, JM has proposed a modified topology to include "partOf"
>>>> relations for STPs to indicate the NSnetwork object they belong to, and
>>>> "managing" relation for NSA object to indicate which NSnetwork object they
>>>> are responsible for.  This version also uses full URN specification to name
>>>> NSnetowork objects and STP objects.
>>>> 
>>>> ***AI: Jerry:  JS will review the topo file asap and if no other issue are
>>>> obvious, it will be circulated as topo version 1.1d.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 9/7/11 10:38 AM, Tomohiro Kudoh wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> This is a resending of test message:
>>>> 
>>>> Since the OGF NSI-WG mailing list is down, I made a temporary mailing
>>>> list. Addresses on the Jerry's contact list are registered as well as
>>>> Guy and Jeroen.
>>>> 
>>>> Tomohiro
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Atsuko Takefusa, Ph. D.
>>> Information Technology Research Institute, AIST
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