[security-area] GGF-16 coming up

[Olle Mulmo]

All,

The detailed program for GGF-16 can now be found at
http://www.ggf.org/gf/event_schedule/

We have an interesting agenda lined up, security-wise. "Here and now"  
is the recurrent theme of this event, and that shows in the workshop  
program as well, with multi-grid interoperability, authorization here  
and now, and "Grid meets Shib" on the agenda. The virtualization ad- 
hoc BOF and the "Security and Privacy needs of Health Grids" sounds  
very interesting as well. Not to mention our usual RG and WG  
sessions, of course!

On Wednesday, February 15th at 13:30 we have our security area  
session, for which we would like to take the opportunity to attract  
your interest with this invited presentation:

Title: Microsoft R&D: Distributed Security for Grids

Presenter: Mr. Blair Dillaway, Software Architect, Advanced  
Strategies and Policy

Abstract: This talk will present an overview of distributed security  
work being done at Microsoft that is relevant to problems faced by  
the Grid community. It will identity the challenging Grid security  
problems we are focusing on and review Microsoft technologies that  
provided a foundation for this work. It will then discuss some of the  
ways the technologies are being evolved and integrated to create more  
practical and flexible solutions.


In addition, we (your ADs) believe that the security area needs to  
start looking a little bit into the future[*], to make sure that our  
activities line up well with the new and emerging needs. This will  
also be discussed at our area meeting.

Hope to see many of you there!

Olle & Dane


[*] Given that we have a guest from Microsoft, perhaps it would be  
appropriate to dub the area meeting "The Road Ahead". ;-)