Quarterly Reports

• CLAW: https://blog.geant.org/2017/12/11/claw-surviving-the-crisis-together.  

• CLAW2018 planning.
  
  

Mobility day 2018: Mobility Day at TNC18.

CLAW playbook

https://blog.geant.org/2018/08/02/claw-a-crisis-management-workshop-that-puts-nrens-to-the-test

https://blog.geant.org/2018/07/16/gcp - general announcement

https://blog.geant.org/2018/06/01/tnc18-gcp - general announcement

• 6th SIG-NOC meeting end of November in Utrecht:
  
  • Announcement: https://blog.geant.org/2017/10/20/the-noc-of-the-future.
• Working with the GEANT Training and Development team to create NOC Training Programme.

• April meeting.
• https://blog.geant.org/2018/05/14/largest-sig-noc-meeting-attendance-to-date.
  
  
• https://blog.geant.org/2018/01/23/the-6th-sig-noc-meeting-hazy-visions-of-the-future. 

• Preparations for SIG-NOC meeting on 21-22 November in Rome, hosted by GARR. Huge interest so far.

Agenda here

• Training talks still ongoing, mainly finalising contractual agreements with the trainer.

https://blog.geant.org/2018/11/27/sig-noc-ngn-minestrone-in-rome.

https://blog.geant.org/2018/09/28/sig-noc-and-sig-ngn-to-hold-meetings-in-the-eternal-city-21-22-november-and-22-23-november

• All-hands VC on October 24th
• First draft of a baseline document to collect info on research engagement throughout the world

• New chair: David Salmon
• Planning side meeting at TNC

• Finished the Charter
• First meeting in Berlin, August 28th: https://blog.geant.org/2017/09/19/finding-differences-and-commonalities-in-approaches-to-gdpr.
• Second meeting in Utrecht, October 30th: https://blog.geant.org/2017/11/01/whos-afraid-of-the-gdpr.
  
  

• https://blog.geant.org/2018/03/20/surviving-the-gdpr-and-storm-emma.
• Two meetings: January and April.

• OSINT training report: https://tf-csirt.org/2017/09/26/open-source-intelligence-what-can-we-learn-from-the-military/.
• September meeting report: https://tf-csirt.org/2017/10/10/healthy-or-hacked-questions-for-the-52nd-tf-csirt-meeting/.
• September 2017 meeting.
• CSIRT training in APAN: https://blog.geant.org/2017/09/04/csirt-workshop-at-apan44.
• January meeting announcement: https://blog.geant.org/2017/10/16/call-for-proposals-tf-csirt-first-regional-symposium-europe-2018.

• Due to the size and continuing growth of TF-CSIRT, the Steering Committee has been expanded to 8 members.
• Stricter requirements have been established for Trusted Introducer.
• Listed and Accredited Teams to raise the maturity level of teams in the community.
• TF-CSIRT is tracking and responding to changes to "WHOIS" data in
• relation to GDPR.
• Support "TRANSITS in Asia" event at APAN45 conference.
• https://tf-csirt.org/2018/03/15/tfcsirt53/.
• https://blog.geant.org/2017/12/19/tf-csirt-defines-a-new-strategy
• https://meetings.internet2.edu/2018-global-summit/detail/10004993/.
• https://blog.geant.org/2018/04/16/is-this-your-digital-life.
• https://blog.geant.org/2018/04/03/transits-i-and-csirt-in-asia-meeting-at-apan45-great-potential-for-international-collaboration.

• 54th TF-CSIRT meeting in Warsaw: https://tf-csirt.org/2018/07/24/tfcsirt54/.
• Lightning talk on Security Collaborations (incl. TF-CSIRT & Trusted Introducer) at TNC18 by Sigita Jurkynaite
• TF-CSIRT Steering Committee meeting with FIRST Board of Directors at FIRST Annual Conference, Kuala Lumpur.
• Presentation on the Trusted Introducer maturity levels by TF-CSIRT SC Chair Baiba Kaskina at FIRST Annual Conference.
• Support for APAN training: https://blog.geant.org/2018/08/13/kia-ora-from-the-csirt-capacity-building-event-in-new-zealand-5-9-august.

• Creation of TF-CSIRT Futures working group looking at future alternative homes for TF-CSIRT.
• TRANSITS retreat undertaking a complete review of all TRANSITS materials across four modules (organisational, operational, technical, legal).  
• Changes made to Trusted Introducer contract to allow new listing process to be implemented.  

55^th TF-CSIRT meeting held in Vilnius, Lithuania.  

https://blog.geant.org/2018/11/02/modern-transits-makeover-at-a-medieval-castle

• No meetings this period, activity has focused on developments for TNC18.

• Meeting at TNC18 with a focus on performance monitoring across GN4 projects, including DTN developments and GTS support.
  

https://blog.geant.org/2018/09/11/sig-pmv-meeting-registrations-and-call-for-presentations-open

October meeting: https://blog.geant.org/2017/10/10/sig-ism-it-is-all-about-collaboration.

https://blog.geant.org/2017/10/16/together-towards-a-new-security-architecture

• Meeting in Madrid (Agenda and Notes, 15 + 4 remote)

https://blog.geant.org/2018/06/05/sig-ism-tnc18-very-open-about-information-security

https://blog.geant.org/2018/03/04/news-from-wise.

• Security discussion at I2GS: https://meetings.internet2.edu/2018-global-summit/detail/10004993/
• SIG-ISM Open Workshop at TNC18 (16 + 3 remote)
• WISE BoF. 
• WISE at NSF: https://wise-community.org/2018/08/24/the-wise-community-makes-good-progress-while-usa-news-teams-are-gathered-outside/.
  
  

https://blog.geant.org/2018/10/22/sig-ism-obsession-with-post-it-notes-and-plans-for-the-future

• Meeting at APAN 45 (10 people).

• Meeting at I2GS (20)
• Meeting at TNC18 (20)

https://blog.geant.org/2018/09/03/next-stage-intelligence-gathering-activity-by-special-interest-group-transnational-education-sig-tne

• https://blog.geant.org/2018/01/26/sig-msp-working-together-to-deliver-a-compelling-value-proposition-for-nrens.
• Two meetings: January and April.

No meetings in this period.

Preparing for October meeting with focus on GDPR and Security.

Successful meeting on 3-4 October in Belgrade, Serbia hosted by AMRES. 35 participants from 15 representing NRENs. Main focus was on GDPR and new products related to Security. Notes here:  3-4 October 2018%2C Belgrade%2C Serbia

https://blog.geant.org/2018/10/09/busy-meeting-for-sig-msp-in-belgrade

30+ participants at 13-15 March meeting in Espoo, hosted by CSC.

• Focused follow-up on Crisis Management for communications staff.
• Worked on coordination and cross-linking Marcomms with other TFs and SIGs.
• Marcomms GDPR work and communications plan.
• https://blog.geant.org/2018/03/16/collaboration-opportunities-new-faces-marcomms-group.

40+ participants at joint  meeting with Global PR Network pre-TNC18.

• Analytics, engagement, social media, Enlighten Your Research, impact stories were key focuses
• Celebration of 15th anniversary of the SIG and 5th anniversary of the Global group
• https://blog.geant.org/2018/06/18/analyse-strategise-engage-marketing-communications-community-gathers-at-tnc18

Around 30 participants at 26-28 September meeting in Lisbon, hosted by FCCN.

• 15th anniversary of the SIG celebrated
• internal communications, digital engagement, communications strategy, messaging in print and online were key focuses.
• https://blog.geant.org/2018/09/29/sig-marcomms-celebrates-15-years-of-development-in-nren-marketing-communications

Also a CONNECT article: https://www.geant.org/News_and_Events/CONNECT/Issue_30/Documents/SIG-Marcomms.pdf

Planning has begunnfor next 2 meetings (Feb 4-6 in London, June 16th preceding TNC)

Limited discussion on the mailing list. Most of the developments are happening in GN4-2 JRA4 on the WebRTC front.

Situation is being discussed and assessed by the SIC Committee members.

September meeting: 1st SIG-CISS meeting

4 action items have been defined with potential contributions by the next meeting.

Most of the SIG-CISS people are planing to attend the CS3 Workshop in Krakow on 29-31 Jan 2018. Preparation work has been started.

3rd SIG-CISS meeting

Successful meeting, over 30 delegates from 19 European organisations.

Blog post: https://blog.geant.org/2018/12/03/record-attendance-at-the-third-sig-ciss-cloudy-interoperable-software-stacks-meeting-in-berlin

https://blog.geant.org/2018/09/03/special-interest-group-cloudy-interoperable-software-stacks-sig-ciss-to-meet-again-in-november

https://blog.geant.org/2018/11/27/sig-noc-ngn-minestrone-in-rome. 

https://blog.geant.org/2018/09/28/sig-noc-and-sig-ngn-to-hold-meetings-in-the-eternal-city-21-22-november-and-22-23-november

https://blog.geant.org/2017/12/11/claw-surviving-the-crisis-together. 

https://blog.geant.org/2017/11/07/claw-the-first-crisis-management-workshop-for-the-geant-community

https://blog.geant.org/2018/11/26/claw-2018-crisis-in-guilder. 

https://blog.geant.org/2018/11/15/claw-2018-what-it-meant-to-me. 

WE NEED TO
TALK ABOUT
SECURITY.  Sigita Jurkynaite and Alf Moens.  CONNECT 26. 

GÉANT TASK FORCES
AND SPECIAL INTEREST
GROUPS: A VERY BUSY
SEASON AHEAD.  Rosanna Norman.  CONNECT 26.

CLAW – THE
FIRST CRISIS
MANAGEMENT
WORKSHOP FOR
THE GÉANT
COMMUNITY.  Charlie van Genuchten.  CONNECT 26.

NEWS FROM THE
GÉANT COMMUNITY
PROGRAMME.  Charlie van Genuchten.  CONNECT 28.

https://blog.geant.org/2018/07/16/gcp.

https://blog.geant.org/2018/06/01/tnc18-gcp

GDPR and the GÉANT Community.  Ana Alves, CONNECT 30.

THE RETURN OF
CLAW IN 2018.  Rosanna Norman.  CONNECT 30.

GÉANT
COMMUNITY
PROGRAMME:
BACK IN FULL
SWING AFTER THE
SUMMER BREAK.  Rosanna Norman.  CONNECT 30. 

STEERING
SIG-MARCOMMS
THROUGH 15 YEARS
OF SUCCESS!  Laura Durnford.  CONNECT 30. 

• SIG-CISS (aka new TF-Storage)
• TF-RED
• SIG-TNE

RADAR exercise recommendations from GA paper. 

The TF & SIGs Secretaries and Chairs met at TNC17 to share information about their groups, raise questions and requests for GCC. The session was attended by representatives of all 13 TFs & SIGs and the GCC chair Valter Nordth.

https://blog.geant.org/2017/08/14/busy-season-of-working-groups-ahead-register-to-participate/

• Implementation of the response testing initiative.
• Completed the review of Trusted Introducer. 
• May 2016 meeting: https://tf-csirt.org/2016/05/17/riga/.  

• Announced support for the TLP protocol.
• September 2016 meeting: https://tf-csirt.org/2016/10/07/zurich/

•  Evolving the Trusted Introducer process: https://tf-csirt.org/2017/04/30/evolving-the-listed-teams-process-at-trusted-introducer/
• TF-CSIRT Strategy.

• May meeting report: https://tf-csirt.org/2017/05/15/tf-csirt51/. 

SIG-ISM White Paper on security management: SIG ISM white paper security management.  

SIG-ISM risk consultation: RISK consultation VC, may 18th, 2016.

4th SIG-ISM Workshop took place in Dublin on 22-23 February. There are two working groups (WG1: Inventory for Security Officers & WG2: Guidance on setting up and running ISMS for NRENs); 3 active regional working groups established (NORDIC/BALTIC, Benelux, English speaking region). You can read the meeting report here: 4th SIG-ISM Workshop - Agenda, Slides & Notes

WISE held their 4th workshop in Amsterdam on 27-29 March. 28 experts worked in 3 working groups on: Minimum Set Risk Assessment Checklist (RAW-WG), lists of available trainings and training needs (STAA-WG) and Security for Collaboration among Infrastructures document (SCIV2-WG).

WISE Security for Collaboration among Infrastructures Endorsement Ceremony took place at TNC17 in Linz. SCI’s updated version 2 was officially endorsed by representatives of EGI, EUDAT, GÉANT, GridPP, PRACE, SURF, WLCG and the USA’s XSEDE e-infrastructure.

In June, The WISE RAW WG (Risk Assessment Working Group) has published an easy to use risk management template with instructions for infrastructures and sites. The template is published with CC-BY license and can be downloaded  from the WISE Wiki.

WISE held a meeting on 15 August in Arlington, USA, as part of the NSF Cybersecurity Summit. On-day programme included 4 sessions: Community Projects, Software Assurance, Risk Management and SCI Self Assessment Walkthrough. More information and slides here: WISE @NSF Summit

SIG-ISM Chair Alf Moens and Secretary Sigita Jurkynaitė published a blog on various security collaborations, including SIG-ISM and WISE:

https://wise-community.org/2017/07/31/security-is-the-new-black-of-the-re-community/

• SIG-Greenhouse report on NREN approaches to software sustainability: https://wiki.geant.org/display/GREEN/NREN+approaches+to+software+development.  
• SIG-Greenhouse report on open source software dependencies in NRENs: https://wiki.geant.org/display/GREEN/Open+Source+Software+in+NRENs.

Commons Conservancy registered as a company with notary in NL. 

MoU between GÉANT, NLnet and Commons Conservancy signed.

https://blog.filesender.org/2017/07/20/announcing-filesender-2-0-beta-1/.

TNC session on OSS and Commons Conservancy:https://tnc17.geant.org/core/session/19. 

• SCOPE wiki space was created on the confluence wiki
• SCOPE discussion forum was set up for members to launch new discussions or engage in conversations on various IT, business or sustainability topics launched by members. Forum software was tested and initial topics explored.

• 5 Best practice documents from the former campus best practice national working groups are lined up for publication. Publication will be done on the new SCOPE wiki space where members have an opportunity to discuss good and best IT practices
• A plan is made to review a number of campus best practice documents and update with the inclusion of a green element.

• Meeting in Berlin
• Covering the handover from GN4-1 SA8 T2 (WebRTC Task) to GN4-2 JRA4 T4/5
• Keep the community informed about commercial services/solutions: Intel, Firefox, Jitsi, Callstats.io, Mconf
• Pulling together a market research about video and web conferencing service use either cloud-based or on-premises
• Preparing the ground for the GÉANT/NORDUnet joint Vconf tendering procurement

• Last meeting in Helsinki
• Keeping an eye on WebRTC standardization at IETF
• Focus on the Federated STUN/TURN service development fully covered by the GN4-2 JRA4 T4/5 tasks
• The community will be involved in the market research study for the service
• Agreed to close TF-WebRTC and re-create a new group with broader scope also on streaming, e-learning and mutimedia
• SIG-Multimedia was created and approved by the GCC.

SIG-Multimedia was established back in October 2016 to provide a forum for gathering and exchanging experiences, ideas and knowledge on the development, deployment, testing and standardisation of innovative multimedia protocols, infrastructures, services and applications.

The SIG-Multimedai Steering Committee members are

• Mihaly Meszaros, NIIF

• Rui Ribeiro, FCT

• Erik Kikkenborg, NORDUnet

• Bartlomiej Idzikowski, PSNC

The first face-to-face meeting co-located with the Up2U Project Workshop to be held on 8-10 May 2017 in Porto, Portugal.

Preparations for the meeting as well as identification of synergies between the GN4-2 and the Up2U projects' activities in the area of multimedia content repositories and real-time WebRTC-based communication services have been undertaken.

Some of the SIG-Multimedia regular attendees gathered for an informal meeting during TNC'17. Peter Szegedi, as the task leader of the GN4-2 JRA4 T4 activity - looking after the Vconf Tendering exercise of GÉANT - updated the attendees on the actual status of the procurement.

The participants also discussed some aspects of the GÉANT TURN service pilot that has been introduced in the GÉANT Connect Magazine special editions made for the conference.

• The official task force mandate expired but the community remained engaged with all the spin-off activities
• Oversight on the ownCloud agreement, more then 400k end-user licenses counted on 15 July.
• Open Cloud Mesh project Phase 3 kick-off. Preparing for the formalization of the protocol.
• OpenStack Operators group calls bi-weekly

• Discussion about the re-chartering was started
• Focus on the entire vertical cloud software stack, integrations and workflows
• Decided to close down TF-Storage and re-charter into a new format
• Proposal to be sent to GCC.

SIG-CISS (Cloudy Interoperable Software Stacks) was established in February 2017 in order to provide a broader forum for gathering and exchanging experiences, ideas and knowledge on the development, deployment, testing and standardisation of cloud infrastructure software stacks, platforms and workflows.

The SIG-CISS Steering Committee members are

• Maciej Brzezniak, PSNC
• Guido Aben, AARNet
• Simon Leinen, SWITCH

First discussion and informal group meeting is scheduled during TNC'17. SIG-CISS will be hosted by the Cloud Cafe people.

SIG-CISS BoF was organized at TNC'17 in conjunction with the GN4-2 JRA4 Cloud Café. Guido Aben on behalf of the steering committee presented the objectives of the SIG to the wide audience and the team engaged in some informal discussion.

(picture is in the GÉANT Connect Magazine)

The 1st SIG-CISS meeting was planned to be hosted by SURFsara in Amsterdam on 25-26 September 2017. This is co-located with the 2nd Open Research Cloud Congress at the EGI.eu premises that provides potential synergies with topics, speakers and attendees.

The preliminary agenda and speakers have been agreed with the Steering Committee members.

• Some SIG-NOC participants met at TNC'16
• Engagement with the wider community: E.g., Whether Forecast people in the UK
• Preparing for the NOC Training development work

• Business Case created for the NOC Training development and provisioning
• Meeting in November
• Focusing on automation of NOC workflows and functions )Configuration (network & servers), Monitoring, Fault response, Service recovery).
•  Organizing a one-day NOC Training Development Workshop

•  Meeting in April
• Focusing on best practices, automation, communication and security
• Further exploration of the training programme development. Seeing if a collaboration with EGI is possible.

• Further exploration of training Programme, seeing if a resubmission to GCC is possible.
• Organising 6th SIG-NOC meeting
  
  

Met 12 June 2016, preceding TNC16, in a joint meeting with the Global PR Network in Prague. 41 registered participants from 26 organisations.

• Explored communications challenges faced by African NRENs. By comparing them to the European and Latin American experience found many similarities. Discussed how to support the starting of a SIG-Marcomms-like PR network in the African region.
• Highlighted EventR community calendar and inthefieldstories.net blog as useful tool/channel
• Provided a summary of 'storytelling in marketing communications' training from previous meeting
• Updates from participating NRENs about their communications activities, challenges and experiences.

Met 27-29 September 2016, hosted by EENet of HITSA at Tallinn University, Estonia. 17 on-site participants from 11 organisations and 11 remote participants registered.

• GÉANT cloud services workshop
• Overview of all TFs and SIGs and opportunities to propose workshops & small projects in GÉANT Community Programme.
• Trialled blogging training and proposed rolling out to wider community.
• Discussed crisis management and communications and proposed a community workshop
• Followed up on June African PR Network discussion:
  • invitation to contribute to Ubuntunet conference communications workshop
  • hands-on work to start updating old 'How to...' communications documents
• Updates from participating NRENs about their communications activities, challenges and experiences.

Blog: https://blog.geant.org/2016/09/30/keep-calm-and-carry-on-communicating

Met 7-8 March in Poznan, hosted by PSNC, including joint meeting with SIG-MSP & participation by some TF-RED people. 32 on-site participants  & 5 remote participants from 17 organisations.

• Impacts of GDPR on NREN marketing & services
• Update on crisis communications & brainstorm for upcoming community workshop
• GN4-2 updates
• Contributions by PSNC, HEAnet, CSC, DeIC, CESNET, BELNET, SURFnet, EENet, Jisc, GÉANT
  
  

Met on 2 June, immediately following TNC17 in Linz, Austria, as a joint meeting with the Global PR Network. 36 on-site participants and 2 remote participants from 27 organisations across Europe (EU and EaP countries), North America, Latin America, Eurasia, Central Asia, Australasia.

• Explored challenges faced by Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries and gave them advice in a 'flipped' panel.
• Reviewed InTheField blog and plans for development (AARNet)
• Updates from participating NRENs about their communications activities, challenges and experiences (REANNZ, RESTENA, SINGAREN, CAREN and Asi@Connect project)
• Reviewed TNC17 topics interesting for further communications activities.

Blog here: https://blog.geant.org/2017/06/04/exchange-knowledge-as-communications-community-group-looks-east

In addition:

• secretary & SC chair participated in SIGs & TFs round table discussion at TNC17
• 4 SIG participants joined committee to formulate CLAW crisis management event.
  • SC agreed CLAW will replace customary Autumn SIG meeting so encouraging participants to register for that instead and bring their NOC & security colleagues.

Met 8-9 March in Poznan, hosted by PSNC, including joint meeting with SIG-Marcomms & participation by some TF-RED people. 28 on-site participants & 4 remote participants from 18 organisations.

Joint meeting inlcuded:

• European Open Science Cloud
• GÉANT-and-NRENs service portfolio
• Funet2020 new network

SIG-MSP meeting focused on:

• Clouds
• KPIs
  

More info here: https://blog.geant.org/2017/02/28/sigmsp-fruitful-feedback/

The Task Force was chartered in the previous quarter. No activity was scheduled in this quarter.

Discussion started on the KPIs to measure the SIG against. FOSDEM '17 was suggested as an event to co-locate. No formal meeting was scheduled.

The steering group defined KPIs for the SIG. 

• First meeting held in Zurich.
• Survey on performance and monitoring completed by the SIG.

•  Second meeting held in Amsterdam.  Work on SIG-PMV scenarios started: PMV Scenarios.  

SIG-TNE was established in February with over 20 NRENs supporting the activity globally.

The first planning meeting took place on 25 April in Washington DC (at the Internet2 Global Summit). The session was well attended by 30 participants from all continents. During this meeting, 4 groups worked on identifying the main challenges that transnational education related institutions are facing now. You can read the meeting report here: Meeting at I2 Global Summit 2017

The first SIG-TNE meeting took place at TNC17 in Linz. 22 participants from 12 NRENs/Institutions worldwide attended the meeting.

4 main working streams have been identified:

• TNE data
• Global TNE policies
• Technical Barriers
• Tools, toolkits and resources

Note and slides from the meeting can be found here: Meeting at TNC17

• Finished Charter
• Session and Meeting at Internet2 Global Summit
• Joint Meeting with SIG-Marcomms and SIG-MSP

• Meeting at TNC17
• All-hands VC July 5th
• Start Requirements Gathering