[ogsa-wg] a potential OGSA Authentication Profile (was: RE: CALL CANCELLED)

[Marty Humphrey]

Alan et. al.,

Having somewhat caught up with this desire within OGSA to create "very
simple one-to-one, OGSA Basic Security Authentication Profile proposal", I
think that the current "Security considerations" of the latest draft of the
"HPC Basic Profile"
(http://forge.ggf.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/projects.ogsa-hpcp-wg/do
cman.root.drafts.hpc_basic_profile/doc13736/5) might be what you're looking
for.

That is, we wrote up essentially a "very simple one-to-one, OGSA Basic
Security Authentication Profile proposal" based on our collective
experiences of the HPC Basic Profile interop demo for SC2006.

The question, of course, is: to what extent does your definition of "simple"
match our definition of "simple"? 

We're discussing this "security considerations" tomorrow (11 Eastern) in the
OGSA HPC Profile call -- please participate if you're interested...

-- Marty


-----Original Message-----
From: ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of
Alan Sill
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:36 AM
To: Andreas Savva
Cc: ogsa-wg
Subject: Re: [ogsa-wg] CALL CANCELLED

I came in early today (normally drive to drop my kids off at school  
between 7:30 to 8:00 each day)  to participate in the requirements  
discussion for an authentication profile for the HPC use case.  I  
will try to connect to the previously announced number at 8:00 am to  
see if that conversation can proceed.)

In the meantime, any pointers beyond the gridforge pages to work done  
on the HPC use case in this regard would be useful.  If we do connect  
this morning or in a future meeting, I would be willing to describe  
the AuthN/AuthZ infrastructure choices possible with which I am  
familiar for the cluster and HPC conditions.

Alan

On Dec 14, 2006, at 7:26 AM, Andreas Savva wrote:

> Sorry, I forgot to mention that if any group self-forms at a later  
> point
> today and decides to have an ad-hoc discussion on any of the topics  
> you
> should email the list.
>
> A number of people came for both the workflow and the security
> discussion but we were missing the leading figures.
>
> Andreas
>
> Andreas Savva wrote:
>> Today's call is canceled due to lack of quorum.
>>
>> Thanks and apologies to all who came.
>> Andreas
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Alan Sill, Ph.D
TIGRE Senior Scientist
High Performance Computing Center
TTU

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