3. Topics of Interest 

• GRNET work on OSS/BSS and ITSM integration - Yannis Mitsos
  YM presented an overview of the architecture. End-users can order services directly. L2 VPN service example was given. Decouple the OSS from the BSS, user only faces the later (via the one-stop-shop) during provisioning. All technologies are open source, will be made available to the community as abstract/modular as possible. It is not a huge software. The one-stop-shop jump portal is a commercial service at the moment though. This concept has been taken from the telecom word.
   

  SIG-NGN could be a platform for discussion, we have to catch up with telcos. Lots of NRENs haven't looked at the service scaling, which is why they have not thought about it yet. Manual procedures do not scale anymore. One has to have an UI portal with all the information (snapshot of all services available to Uni CIOs). It needs automated procedures at the back-end though. MD-VPN could be an example where such automated integrated service provisioning should happen at the GÉANT scale. GRNET is running this service in Beta to show an example. 

  YM could possibly give a demo of the service to the community at the next SIG-NGN preparation.

• Report on operational aspect of service provisioning across e-Infrastructures - David Groep
  DG shared the Dutch experience on e-Infrastructures. Incident response and authentication are examples for common set of topics among e-Infrastructures. User facing organizations have to deal with AUP. Common AUPs are important. The mandate to work together has been there since 2014. The Dutch came together 15 years ago and tried different approaches in attempt to find a sustainable model. 
  For example, storage from SURFsara, ownCloud from SURFnet and AAI from SURFconnext plus the community of SURF came together and got SURFdrive. In terms of funding, the bill should not appear at the researcher because they start shopping then and create silos. Researchers raise questions regarding European Open Science Cloud vs. Global, closed for a while, industry research, and what is cloud? PRACE is not in that paper, and PRECE is not that coherent. Users will go shopping if they did not get something - for that it is important to engage with the users early on and be pragmatic. Bottom up approach continues to work.  Furthermore, writing the proposal is as important as getting the money because it builds your community.
  
  

• ICT2015 report and the "new world order" - Michael Enrico  
  ME informed the TTC that PPP and industry participation is being pushed by the new EC. Money is being shifted over to telcos, and especially into the well-funded 5G again. Integration and consolidation of e-Infrastructures, pulling out the research element and opening it up to new markets, SMEs. e-Infrastructures are going for EINFRA-22-2016 (part 2) Open Call programme - to do things together. Burgeno's video at ICT2015 is available. Spanish company has been selected by e-Infras (EGI, OpenAIRE, EUDAT, lately PRACE) to run the Open Calls on behalf of them. GA has to buy-in to this. About 50 beneficiaries could be funded and most of them can turn into real users afterwards.