Andy Turner's NCeSS e-Infrastructure Project Meeting 2007-11-15 Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Introduction
- For information about the NCeSS e-Infrastructure Project Meeting on 2007-11-15 which took place via Access Grid.
- Contents:
People
- Lancaster/Daresbury/ReDRess
  - Rob Allan
  - Others?
- UCL/CASA/GeoVUE
  - Andy Hudson-Smith
  - Richard Milton
- Manchester/NCeSS Hub
  - Mike Daw
  - Wei Jie
  - Katy Middlebrough
  - Others?
- Leeds/MoSeS
  - Junaid Arshad
  - Andy Turner
  - Others?
- Oxford/OeSS
  - ?
- Others?
Agenda
1. Wei Jie presentation on authentication/authorisation service for the e-Infrastructure
  - Opportunity for everyone to offer feedback and help with use cases.
  - This should be of particular interest to those involved in work for the e-Infrastructure that have security requirements.
Documentation
- Links to Portal Resources
- ...
Notes
- I had problems connecting, but the problems were more at the server end it seems. I tried unicast and multicast and probably should have tried a bridge, but didn't. For detials see the following:
  - http://www.agsc.ja.net/rssfeed/alert.php#200711151028301504031994
  - This was annoying as I even went to the lengths of rebooting My PC killing lots of processes and connections costing me hours of processing work.
- Wei presented and Junaid and I joined the meeting from my office and we tried to catch up.
- In the feedback session:
  - I pointed to Junaid's MSc thesis which I had uploaded on Tuesday.
  - Wei said he had already read it.
- Junaid made some points along the following lines:
  - One of the problems we are facing in MoSeS is the confidential nature of the data and that Security of the data itself did not seem to be being addressed.
  - In Junaid's MSc Thesis he advocated integrating PERMIS and Shibboleth.
  - GridShib and ShibGrid are projects integrating Shibboleth and Globus.
  - OGSA-DAI is part of Globus which is built on GSI built on PKI with inherent limitations.
- Wei is to meet with MoSeS (Junaid, Paul Townend, Andy) to talk about Security:
  - Junaid strongly encouraged collaboration.
  - This could be part of the same meeting as when Rob Allan and Xiaobo Yang come to Leeds.
  - It has been suggested that a date in early December would be good, but this is yet to be arranged.
- I lost connection towards the end of the meeting.
- After the meeting Junaid and I had a chat:
  - It would have been good to catch up before this meeting so that I could brief Junaid about the meeting on Tuesday.
  - Junaid does not yet have access to the NCeSS e-IP Worksite on the portal.
    - Andy is to sort this out.
  - Junaid still does not have a web home page:
    - Paul is to sort this out.
  - Junaid has talked to Paul and plans to investigate whether SRB is an alternative to OGSA-DAI.
    - We know SRB is a virtual file system, but is it more and what does it have in terms of security?
  - Slide 22 is vague and there is a contrary typo.
  - In terms of MoSeS work, Junaid is of the opinion that moving from Gridsphere to Sakai is not a security problem.
    - That is prinicpally right because both are based on tomcat, however:
      - Sakai requires a dedicated tomcat instance and Shibboleth and PERMIS tie tomcat to apache.
        
        The potential issues being multiple apache webservers on the same resource.
        
        This might be a Red Herring, but Junaid is going to look into it.
Action List
- Andy Turner
  - Arrange meeting in Leeds with Xiaobo Yang, Rob Allan, Wei Jie, Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend and possibly others.
  - Get Junaid Arshad added to the ESRC e-IP Worksite on the NceSS Portal.
References
- Andy Turner's NCeSS e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences Project Web Page
- http://www.ncess.ac.uk/portal/
- Why I was experiencing problems and arrived late:
  - http://www.agsc.ja.net/rssfeed/alert.php#200711151028301504031994

Andy Turner's NCeSS e-Infrastructure Project Meeting 2007-11-15 Web Page

Introduction

People

Agenda

Documentation

Notes

Action List

References

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