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This page shows the KPIs for each of the existing GÉANT Special Interest Groups. 

Table of Contents

2018

SIGPlanned AchievementKPIDue DateStatus
CISS



Greenhouse



ISM



Multimedia



MSP



Marcomms



NGN



NOC



PMV



SCOPE



TNE



2017

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SIGPlanned AchievementKPIDue DateStatus
SCOPEWrite and or revise and publish Best Practice Documents including environmental elements2 Best Practice documentsMay 2017

Status
colourYellow
titleON GOING

SCOPEEstablish the community through face-to-face and online meetingstwo meetings organised and held online or face to faceMay 2017
Status
colourYellow
titleONGOING
SCOPEEstablish a structure and plan for the future to align the Green ICT and Campus Best Practice works streams

Sustainability plan

Manifesto

May 2017
Status
colourYellow
titleONGOING
ISM
Create and maintain a trusted network for sharing best practices and information
2 workshops a year (December 2017)
Chat room (for SC) (September 2017)

Dec 2017

Status
colourGreen
titleDONE
 

ISMIncrease NREN participation and regional collaboration in the area of information security management
Set up 2-3 regional groups (April 2017)
Engage 2-3 new NREN members (December 2017)
Dec 2017

Status
colour

Green
title

DONE

ISMDesign an inventory for security officers
Design a structure for an online platform (April 2017)
Collect information from 4 pioneering NRENs/Institutions (September 2017)
Sep 2017

Status
colourGreen
titleDONE

ISM
Implementation of security management for NRENs
Set up a working group (April 2017)
First documents produced and published (December 2017)
2018
Status
colourYellow
titleONGOING
NOCSupervise the NOC Training development and execution.

Training BC has been rejected by GÉANT Association due to insufficient surplus for contingency and sustainability.

Plan to re-submit to GCC for small project funding...

April 2017

Status
colourGreen
titleDONE

Status
colourYellow
titleOngoing

NOCDefine and agree on key topics of interest and organize the SIG meetings around those topics.Next coming SIG-NOC meeting is being discussedApril 2017

Status
colourGreen
titleDone

NOCPut more focus on NOC introductions and flash talks, try and engage with the broader community: Campus NOCs, other world regions....Informal meeting at TNC'17 for broader community engagementApril 2017

Status
colourGreen
titleDone

GreenhouseImplement use of Commons Conservancy within the community2 x projects in ConservancyDec 2017

Status
colourGreen
title

DONE

GreenhouseWrite a report on software dependenciesDocument for circulation at GASept 2017

Status
colour

Green
title

DONE

GreenhouseCreate a Greenhouse "manifesto"ManifestoSept 2017
Status
colourRed
titleNOT STARTED
MultimediaOrganize two SIG meetings and potential BoFs at relevant conferences.

1st SIG-Multimedia hosted by FCT in Portugal in April time-frame co-located with an Up2U Project technical meeting

Side meeting at TNC'17

Working session at the GÉANT Symposium'17

Nov 2017

Status
colourGreen
titleCOMPLETEDONE

MultimediaExtend the community beyond the usual NREN participants towards universities, research labs and industry

4-5 university collaborators

2-3 regular industry/standardization attendees
Nov 2017

Status
colourYellowGreen
titleONGOINGDONE

MultimediaOrganize cutting-edge demonstrations at large international conferences.

4K WebRTC demo (at NORDUnet and Intrenet2)

Federated STUN/TURN demo at the GÉANT Symposium'17
Nov 2017

Status
colourGreen
titleDONE

CISS

Refreshing and rebuilding the community.

Global live inventory of “who does what”.

BoF - Partnering the Cloud Café at TNC'17

1st meeting in September 2017, in Amsterdam co-located with the 2nd ORC

CS3 sub-group meeting in January 2018

Public, on-line, living document.

 

 

Status
colour

Green
title

DONE

CISSCommon cloud execution workflow. Research and education engagement, use cases.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.  

Status
colour

Green
title

DONE

CISSIndustry engagement, federated, hybrid private-public architectures, cloud connectivity.

Regular information exchange with relevant industry partners. Getting in, out and in between of the clouds.

OpenStack.org is attending...

 

 

Status
colour

Green
title

DONE

MSPA 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                   
 as 1) total per year    ≥ 45 and                                              
2) average per            ≥ 24
meeting,                                                          
3) year total from       ≥ 5
GÉANT staff,                                               
number of
organisations represented from
4) membership           ≥ 15 and                                                     
5) other organisations.   ≥ 3
Jan 2018 ONGOING
MSPA good number (not too many) and mix of topics presented by a good variety of organisations and occasional 'external' (non-members of the group) people.Topics:
6) average number of
presentations per            ≥ 7
meeting,
7) number of ‘external’
speakers per year,          ≥ 1
8) number organisations
presenting on average;   ≥ 5
Jan 2018 ONGOING
MSP

A yearly evaluation within the mailing list: Report on satisfaction levels and how results will inform future activities

≥ 12 responses to the annual survey, of which
≥ 75% report the discussions being useful for their everyday work

Jan 2018 ONGOING
MSPShare discussions / meetings / topics with other groups≥ 1/yJan 2018 ONGOING
MarcommsA 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                   
 as 1) total per year    ≥ 50 and                                              
2) average per            ≥ 22
meeting,                                                          
3) year total from       ≥ 5

GÉANT staff,                                               
number of
organisations represented from
4) membership           ≥ 20 and                                                     
5) other organisations.   ≥ 5

Exceeded in 2017

Jan 2018

 

Status
colourGreen
titleDONE

MarcommsA good number (not too many) and mix of topics presented by a good variety of organisations and occasional 'external' (non-members of the group) people.

Topics:
6) average number of
presentations per            < 14
meeting,
7) number of ‘external’
speakers per year,          ≥ 3
8) number organisations
presenting;   ≥ 18

Exceeded in 2017

Jan 2018

 

Status
colourGreen
titleDONE

MarcommsShare discussions / meetings / topics with other groups

≥ 1/y

Achieved

Jan 2018

 

Status
colourGreen
titleDONE

MarcommsA positive response about the value of the discussions based on post-meeting feedback and a broader annual survey among participants.

5* rating for each meeting from > 60% participants

≥ 20 responses for each annual survey, of which

≥ 60% report the discussions being useful for their everyday work

Jan 2018 
NGN

Support the NREN community through face-to-face meetings, online meetings and mailing list discussions

  • At least one physical meeting per year.
  • Engagement by 30 representatives across 5 organisations.
Nov 2017

 

Status
colourRed
titleNOT STARTED

NGNRecord the Technology Trends emerging within our environment
  • Distribute summary notes of meetings within a month of the meeting.
  • Submit emerging technologies to the GCC Radar for possible inclusion.
Jan 2018
Status
colourRed
titleNOT STARTED
NGNEncourage diversity from our community
  • Panel discussions must encourage diversity of participants (based on economic standing, gender, race, or other criteria).
  • At least one presentation per meeting from non-NREN participants (such as the network research community or commercial entity).
 Nov 2017

 

Status
colourRed
titleNOT STARTED

PMVConduct a Survey of Performance Monitoring (e2e) and Verification requirements within the GÉANT and eduPERT communities (and international collaborating organisations)List of responses (#)  - Qualitative/Quantitative Analysis. Documented requirementsNov 2016

Status
colourGreen
title

DONE

PMVDocument the scenarios requiring appropriate PMV solutionsDocument a number of key scenarios upon which the SIG will study.  PMV Scenarios
Jan 2017

Status
colourGreen
title

DONE

PMVDocument initial recommendation(s) for PMV framework(s)/architecture(s) based on the requirements and scenario analysisDocument initial high-level recommendations for scenario-based PMV solution(s)Mar 2017

Status
colour

Green
title

DONE

PMVIdentify developers of PMV toolkits, to establish dialogue on implementation of the recommendations in year 2Contacts identified for PMV toolkit deployment / development in year 2May 2017
Status
colourRed
titleNOT STARTED
PMVIdentify communities that are in principle willing to evaluate the PMV solutions that are to be deployed in year 2Communities identified for year 2 testsMay 2017
Status
colourRed
titleNOT STARTED
TNETNE SIG developed critical mass and NRENs aware of presence with focus and objectives communicated15 NRENs ‘signed up’ to participate in SIGJuly 2017

Status
colourGreen
titleDONE

TNEPrioritised TNE SIG work plan and resource commitment for 2017-19Work plan with NREN leads identifiedJuly 2017

Status
colourYellow
titleONGOING

TNEUnderstand national TNE data and gaps, and national policies for connection 

‘Mapping’ of country data more clearly understood enabling NREN-NREN collaboration in supporting TNE

Consideration of development of a global connectivity policy to support TNE

National NRENs enabled and equipped to develop better data collection within country

End 2017

Status
colourYellow
titleONGOING

TNEProduce ‘global tech toolkit’ for NRENs and support development of national toolkits, including connectivity map (based on #3 above and the Jisc TNE Tech Toolkit)Toolkit for NRENs globally, whether sending, receiving or developing, jointly developed from national in-country knowledgeEnd 2017

Status
colourYellow
titleONGOING

TNEJoint communications activities to promote GÉANT TNE work
  • Case studies to demonstrate different types of TNE support
  • Articles in GÉANT communications and national NREN communications
Ongoing

Status
colourYellow
titleONGOING

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