[ogsa-wg] Additional items for OGSA Authentication BOF

[Alan Sill]

Discussion after the BOF meeting has brought forward the following  
items related to the OGSA AuthN topic:

1) In addition to describing community practices for existing methods  
of authentication, a desire exists to put forward an assessment or  
evaluation of these with respect to each other and/or other methods  
that might be proposed.  This comparison should include the following:

   - conformance to existing external standards vs. need for  
additional documentation
   - existing implementations (characteristics, number, etc.)
   - performance factors (payload size, communication handshake  
frequency, etc.)
   - requirements in terms of component and/or certificate  
distribution prior to use

This evaluation can either be done as a separate document or be  
incorporated into one of the other defined document outputs of the  
group.  Thoughts, reactions and additional factors for the evaluation  
are welcome.

2) The group needs an additional chair if approved.  Volunteers are  
welcome.  (If enough people volunteer as chair, maybe I can just  
contribute as an author!)

Thanks for everyone's contributions and for the feedback.

Alan

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

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