No policy or best practice in itself will achieve results: it is only through their adoption by the community at large that they gain value, and ensuring this level of acceptance needs engagement throughout the policy development process. In this task, we support (new and existing) communities in adopting interoperable federated policies through 'policy development kits', joint development of policy frameworks, we act as the nexus for Infrastructures and research communities that need to align best practices, and promote existing baseline and best practices through 'round-table' mechanisms and groups.
In many areas of policy there are existing groups that promote harmonisation (such as REFEDS, IGTF, FIM4R, the EGI Security Policy Group, WISE & SCI, etc.), with each of these rooted in its own community, and that at times interwork by means of joint membership. It is the explicit goal of this Task to support the role of these groups and, with the consent of the communities involved, to use them to ease friction along the AAI policy chain in the most cost-effective way. Although having to rely on the formation of global consensus, AARC2 can strongly encourage such consensus to emerge by proactive participation and by having its policy experts participate in these groups at all levels.
Snctfi and community policy kit
The first elements of the Policy Kit are two Community Engagement security policies, a joint work with EGI Security Policy Group. Based on two F2F meetings (Karlsruhe and Amsterdam) and work on Google draft documents (to meet the requirements of Snctfi version 1) resulted in:
- Community Operations Security Policy - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TFE4T4hyFFrVKHyTjh4K8cJlrrvJGfpVvIvL4GCzYFM/edit?usp=sharing
- Community Membership Management Policy - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vPcAja1EyTp-kJPvJpwu3NSd8e1aVcytY3nSGthWNLU/edit?usp=sharing
and these are e.g. being implemented in some of the e-Infrastructures.
The other elements of Snctfi will be elaborated as part of the Policy Development Kit, including AUP alignment.
Community engagement
Re-invigoration of FIM4R. Work on user survey (Hannah and team). To be finalised soon and tried with some communities before FIM4R in Montreal. Planning for the Montreal FIM4R meeting is underway: Monday/Tuesday 18-19 September - in conjunction with RDA 10th plenary.
https://fim4r01.wpdev.geant.org/?p=82
Application of Snctfi through various engagement events. Logo has been produced (thanks GEANT!). DavidG - now housed on IGTF web.
- https://igtf.net/snctfi/
- Cross-Infrastructure FAQ and training on SCI version 2 - being prepared for the WISE workshop at NSF Cybersecurity summit (Arlington, VA) on 15th August.
WISE @ NSF Summit