[ogsa-wg] OGSA AuthN BOF charter session approved at OGF-19; input on HPC profile use case and other documents requested

[Alan Sill]

Dear OGSA-AuthN BOF participants,

I received word today that our request to schedule a charter BOF for  
OGSA Authentication has been approved for OGF-19.  The organizers  
hope to have a preliminary schedule for all sessions available by the  
end of this week.

In a related item, the participants in the group working on the "HPC  
profile" would like feedback regarding authentication specifications  
within this profile.  For the definition of the HPC profile and what  
this group is after, please see the documents at the following two  
links:

https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/listDocuments/projects.ogsa- 
wg/docman.root.design_teams.hpc_profile

https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/projects.ogsa-wg/ 
docman.root.design_teams.reference_model.input_materials

(Apologies if the above links are split in the e-mail process, and  
please reassemble before following them if so.)

This will be discussed briefly in the OGSA-WG overall call this  
Thursday.  This call occurs from 7 to 9 am US/Central, but Hiro will  
attempt to arrange the call to bring up the security topics beginning  
at 8:00 am central.

Finally, a note that the "Basic Security Profile" and "Secure  
Channel" have been or are close to being released:

For BSP, from Hiro:

> Modified on 12/08/2006 by Greg Newby
> Status: - "ready to publish"
>
> Comment was added:
> The standards council approved this document.  It is now in last
> call on the GFSG mailing list, prior to publication.
>
> Respond by visiting:
> http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/artf3405

and for SC:

> From: ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org]On  
> Behalf
> Of Takuya Mori
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:07 AM
> To: ogsa-wg at ogf.org
> Subject: [ogsa-wg] [update] OGSA Security Profile 1.0 - Secure Channel
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> I have updated the SP - SC document as we discussed in the Nov 27
> conference call, and I think it's ready for FINAL CALL.
>
> Please have a look through the document.
> Any comments are welcomed.
>
> The updated version of the profile is available on GridForge.
> OGSA Security Profile 1.0 - Secure Channel:
> https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/ 
> projects.ogsa-wg/docman.root.working_drafts.security_profile_1_0/ 
> doc13560/23
>
> Changes:
> - accepted all the change trackers
> - updated the acknowledgement section
> - updated the extensibility points since those of the extended
>   profile had been updated
> - added a sentence on the extensibility points E009 and E011
> - updated Table 6
> - a number of changes, mainly gramatical errors
>
> Best regards,
>>> Takuya

In addition, there has been some discussion on the standards status  
of WS-Policy, but I have so far been unsuccessful in trying to come  
up with a current link for this.  If anyone has one, and feels that  
discussions on this do not stray too far into OGSA-AuthZ territory,  
please forward it to me.  (The links I have been able to find all  
date from the 2004 time period except for some from early 2006, which  
indicate that WS-Agreement was to supersede WS-Policy; those who know  
more please speak up.)

I would like to get the above background work behind us, with a clean  
set of references for newcomers and a clear document list, both for  
existing documents and those "to be written," before the BOF  
assembles  in North Carolina at the end of January.  Please review  
the above and make suggestions for a working set of reading material  
that will help us get off to a good start with a clear vision of the  
standards and practices documentation/recommendation gaps that we  
need to fill as a group.

Thanks,
Alan


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

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