[ogsa-authn-bof] Identity Management, Authentication and Authorization Related Sessions at OGF-19

[Alan Sill]

Dear colleagues,

By now you will have received the notice and checked the schedule for  
sessions at the North Carolina meeting of the Open Grid Forum to be  
held later this month.  There are several sessions related to  
identity management that are important and that we would like to  
encourage you to attend.

There are several Open Grid Services Architecture sessions(OGSA- 
AuthZ, OGSA HPC Profile, OGSA-AuthN-BOF) that address standards for  
high performance computing and authN/authZ issue.  In addition, there  
will be a Security Area session, a Certificate Authority Operations  
session, and an important all-day set of four sessions dedicated to  
the topic of federated identity management for grids.  There will  
also be an important BOF very related to this one on Levels of  
Assurance in grid software.

These sessions inter-relate and the topics in some may feed into work  
items in the others.  As grid authentication and authorization  
implementations continue to grow in complexity of features and  
sophistication, it will be important to understand the relationships  
between the above systems and how they can be deployed in a single  
set of uniform (or at least standardized) technologies for a given  
grid implementation.

The OGSA-AuthN BOF will be devoted to the topics given in its  
outline, which aim to document existing standards and practices and  
create a roadmap for the evolution of grid services authentication in  
the future.  Your attendance at this and participation in each of the  
above sessions so that we can form the best possible roadmap is  
important and will be appreciated.  Please come and be ready to  
participate and give feedback as well as to volunteer to work on the  
appropriate documents, standards and technologies.

Alan Sill
OGSA-AuthN BOF co-chair

Alan Sill, Ph.D
TIGRE Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center
Adjunct Professor of Physics
TTU

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