[ogsa-authn-bof] [Fwd: [ogsa-wg] Authentication in OGSA]

[David Groep]

Dear all,

For your information this note from the HPC Profile WG is attached.
(and for those of you who are also subscribed to the OGSA-WG mailing
list, it was circulated there yesterday).

	Regards,
	DavidG.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[ogsa-wg] Authentication in OGSA
Date: 	Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:16:02 -0500
From: 	Andrew Grimshaw <grimshaw at cs.virginia.edu>
To: 	<ogsa-wg at gridforum.org>



All,

On this mornings call I volunteered to see what was up with the HPC
profile working group with respect to authentication.  Recall that we
need some sort of authentication story in the short run or we cannot put
together any form or realistic, cross-organizational, compute grids with
BES, or for that matter data grids using RNS/ByteIO.



Attached is a short white paper from the HPC Profile WG (or maybe just
the three authors). It is BES-specific, but I think the ideas may be
generalized to a broader set of OGSA services. I think we should
consider it, or something like it.



Note that it does NOT deal with the ultimate authentication and
delegation problem that we will face. Rather, I personally (speaking
only for myself, and not even the people in my research group) think
that this sort of solution is a stop gap that we can use for awhile, and
that we will ultimately deprecate in favor of whatever comes out of the
OGSA-Authentication WG.



So, for your reading pleasure – and with my thanks to Marty for giving
me a copy.



A







Andrew Grimshaw

Professor of Computer Science

University of Virginia

434-982-2204

grimshaw at cs.virginia.edu




-- 
David Groep

** National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics, PDP/Grid group **
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