[ogsa-wg] Draft charter for OGSA-AuthN WG

[Alan Sill]

Discussion among participants and potential participants has  
indicated a desire to proceed directly to a launch of the OGSA-AuthN  
working group rather than proceed through a BOF.  Most people who  
would participate or be affected have up to now been involved in  
related efforts and would be able to come up to speed fairly quickly  
in this effort.

Here are the elements of a charter, or potential charter, for this  
group that I have identified:

1) Review existing security profiles resulting from previous efforts  
of the Security area and security design group from the OGSA-WG effort

	a) Compare them to existing technology and best practices in the  
community and check for consistency of coverage

	b) Document authentication profiles that may be missing or incomplete

	b) Review mature and maturing technologies likely to affect the  
above best practices for grid services

2) Provide an AuthN development roadmap to compare with the overall  
OGSA roadmap

3) Spawn any subgroups and/or suggest associated research groups that  
may be necessary for consistent development in this area.

The charter can be developed from the above skeleton, and the basics  
agreed to before the first session at OGF-19 in North Carolina.

It is explicitly a part of the charter for this group to work in a  
symmetrical manner with any OGSA-AuthZ work that may be needed for  
consistency in grid services.

Comments welcome.

Alan


Alan Sill
TIGRE Senior Scientist
High Performance Computing Center
TTU

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