[OGSA-AUTHZ] REFEDS

[Alan Sill]

Hi David et al.,

In response to your question, with no endorsement or criticism  
implied, see http://www.terena.nl/tech/refeds/ for information  
regarding the REFEDS initiative.  I'm just learning about it myself.   
(It does include a reference however to eduroam, as we discussed.)

I believe there will be further discussion of this topic among others  
at the next EUGrid PMA meeting (see http://eugridpma.org ).

As I mentioned, I believe we need to get buy-in into the AuthZ  
recharter and goals process as quickly as possible, including formal  
representation, from such projects as Open Science Grid, the LHC  
Computing Grid and/or EGEE, PRAGMA, NAREGI, and other communities  
with an active interest in the authorization area, such as Internet2  
and EDUCAUSE.  I do not speak for such projects but would like to see  
them included... and I am excited about this prospect.

Best,
Alan

Alan Sill
TIGRE Senior Scientist
High Performance Computing Center
TTU

URL: http://hipcat.net/Projects/tigre

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