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| CISS | Investigate the technical, economic and organizational/political possibility of offering coordinated cross-border storage services including storage space swap deals e.g., for data backup/DR/replication and long-term protection based on S3 or other standard interfaces. | Straw-man document written and discussed | June 2018 |
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| CISS | Agree on the basic principles for collectively offering OS images, define, share and maintain a finite set of images as community standard. | Images shared on Github | April 2018 |
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| CISS | Build a reference proxy/gateway implementation of the agreed OpenCloudMesh (OCM) federated sharing protocol specification to support the on-boarding of closed-source EFSS solutions as well as the compliance of the current open-source products. | Sandbox for ownCloud, Nextcloud, Pydio, and PowerFolder. Maybe others. CERN is testing ownCloud and PowerFolder | June 2018 |
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| CISS | Write a position statement about value-added cloud service level specification for multi-disciplinary scientific applications i.e. above the simple VM and/or block storage level but below the domain specific applications/workflows’ needs. | Document written | October 2018 | |||||||||
| Greenhouse | None set - proposal to close group / merge with SMD. | |||||||||||
| ISM | Maintain a trusted network for sharing best practices and information, increase NREN participation | 2 workshops a year + SIG-ISM open meeting at TNC18 | Dec 2018 |
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| ISM | Support regional collaboration groups | 2 blog posts to (1) inform the NREN community about the regional groups (2) follow up on their progress at the end of the year Organise regional groups meetings + sessions at SIG-ISM workshops | Dec 2018 |
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| ISM | Support and promote Working Group 3 - Security Awareness | Set up a mailing list Blog post to inform the NREN community about the WG Presentation at TNC18 SIG-ISM session | Sep 2018 |
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| ISM | Further advance implementation of security management for NRENs | A set of documents produced and published | Dec 2018 |
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| Multimedia | Re-vitalize the SIG. | Organize a face-to-face meeting and set the vision for the SIG with tangible next steps and actions delegated to people. Erik Kikkenborg, NORDUnet volunteered. | June 2018 |
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| MSP | Supporting the MSP community | Three f2f meetings, possibly reaching the regions with historically low participation and those in development. | ||||||||||
| MSP | Ensuring good coverage of MSP topics | A good number and mix of topics presented by a good variety of organisations and occasional 'external' (non-members of the group) people. | ||||||||||
| MSP | Ensuring good engagement from the community in MSP | A good number and mix of participants at meetings throughout the year, including opportunities to mix with a variety of GÉANT staff and people from GÉANT member organisations and other organisations. | ||||||||||
| MSP | Reviewing satisfaction and progress | A yearly evaluation. Report on satisfaction levels and how results will inform future activities. | ||||||||||
| Marcomms | A good number and mix of participants at meetings throughout the year, including opportunities to mix with a variety of GÉANT staff and people from GÉANT member organisations and other organisations. | Number of individuals attending meetings | ||||||||||
| NGN | Re-vitalize the SIG | Organise a face-to-face meeting and set the vision for the SIG with tangible next steps and actions delegated to people. | July 2018 (aligned with 14th STF Poznan) or 28 Sep (Rome) | |||||||||
| NOC | Starting the NOC training development | Acquiring funding for the NOC Training development Organise development session and first training | February 2018 December 2018 |
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| Define and agree on key topics of interest and organize the SIG meetings around those topics. | Two SIG meetings organized until April 2018 | April 2018 | ||||||||||
| Put more focus on NOC introductions and flash talks, try and engage with the broader community: Campus NOCs, other world regions.... | Hold 3-5 flash talks per meeting, include NOCs from other world regions, if possible. | December 2018 | ||||||||||
| SCOPE | In close down phase | |||||||||||
| PMV | Supporting requirements for global usage of PMV architecture and models | 1 Document and maintain recommendation(s) for PMV framework(s)/architecture(s) based on the documented community requirements and agreed scenarios. | August 2018 | |||||||||
| PMV | Supporting the SIG-PMV community | 2 Hold at least two meetings per year at which presentations on PMV topics are solicited, and the scenarios and recommendations are discussed and reviewed. One such meeting may be at the annual TNC conference | December 2019 | |||||||||
| PMV | Enhance toolkit development within the PMV community | 3 Engage with developers of PMV toolkits to encourage appropriate developments towards enhancing their toolkits' support for the scenarios and requirements identified by SIG-PMV for its communities. | December 2018 | |||||||||
| PMV | Support uptake and use of tools | 4 Encourage deployment of recommended architectures and their associated toolkits by the NREN and campus IT communities; solicit feedback on experiences. | December 2018 | |||||||||
| PMV | Provide a focal point for eduPERT discussions globally. | 5 Be an umbrella for and liaise with the GEANT eduPERT activity on performance cases. | December 2018 | |||||||||
| TNE | Increase visibility of the SIG and support outreach to different regions | Organise 3 meetings / workshops in different parts of the world (at APAN, TNC & Internet2 Global Summitt) Publish meeting reports & blogs | August 2017 |
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| TNE | Publish the TNE SIG work plan and 4 working groups based on the main areas of work | Publish the work plan Get the SIG members to sign up for one of the 4 areas of work | September 2017 | |||||||||
| TNE | Support the working groups in prioritising their activities for 2018 | Schedule meetings of all 4 workstreams (VC) Set the priorities and responsibilities | End 2018 | |||||||||
| TNE | Promote the SIG on a national and international level | Regular blogs and articles in national NREN communications + GÉANT communications | Ongoing |
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