This page shows the KPIs for each of the existing GÉANT Special Interest Groups.
2019
| SIG | Planned Achievement | KPI | Due Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSP | Two - three f2f meetings, possibly reaching the regions with historically low participation and those in development. | Host at least one SIG-MSP meeting in a new region and reach out to broader community | end 2019 | ongoing |
| MSP | A good number and mix of topics presented by a good variety of organisations and occasional 'external' (non-members of the group) people. | Invite speakers from different regions/projects | end 2019 | ongoing |
| MSP | Engage with other TFs/SIGs | Organise min one joint meeting with another SIG/Task Force | end 2019 | ongoing |
| NOC | Hold two - three meetings in 2019 | Hold two - three meetings in 2019 | end 2019 | ongoing |
| NOC | A yearly evaluation. Report on satisfaction levels and how results will inform future activities. | Prepare a new survey, consulting the community and run | end 2019 | ongoing |
| NOC | Engage with other TFs/SIGs and other more focus on NOC introductions and flash talks; engage with the broader community | Invite industry speakers to SIG-NOC meetings; introduce new topics via flash talks | end 2019 | ongoing |
| NOC | Further evaluation of training opportunity in collaboration with GEANT Learning and Development Team | Have a decision whether the training goes ahead or not; if yes - make a contract with the trainer and define programme and dates | September 2019 | ongoing |
| Marcomms | Three or four meetings with a possibility to have a joint meeting with SIG-MSP in September | |||
| Marcomms | Participant survey of whole year (also people on mailing list even if not attended the meetings) | |||
| Marcomms | ||||
| TNE | Increase visibility of the SIG and support outreach to different regions | Organise 3 meetings / workshops in different parts of the world (at APAN47, TNC19 & Internet2 TechX2019) Publish meeting reports & blogs | December 2019 | |
| TNE | Promote and pursue the TNE SIG work plan and 4 working groups based on the main areas of work | Promote and pursue the work plan Get the SIG members to sign up for one of the 4 areas of work | September 2019 | |
| TNE | Support the working groups in prioritising their activities for 2019 | Schedule meetings of all 4 workstreams (VC) Set the priorities and responsibilities | End 2019 | |
| TNE | Promote the SIG on a national and international level | Regular blogs and articles in national NREN communications + GÉANT communications | Ongoing | |
| NGN | Hold an "online meeting" between face-to-face meetings for continuity | Support the NREN community through face-to-face meetings, online meetings and mailing list discussions. | End 2019 | TBC |
| NGN | Ensure collaboration with WP6 and Network Areas of the GÉANT Project | Organise cross task (GN4-3 Project) and SIG collaboration. | End 2019 | TBC |
| NGN | At least one presentation per meeting from non-usual suspect group of members. | Encourage diversity of participants (based on economic standing, gender, race, sector affinity, or other criteria). | End 2019 | TBC |
| PMV | KPI#1 | TBC | ||
| PMV | Organise cross task (GN4-3 Project) and SIG collaboration | Ensure collaboration with WP6 and Network Areas of the GÉANT Project | TBC | |
| PMV | KPI#3 | TBC | ||
| ISM | Maintain a trusted network for sharing best practices and information, increase NREN participation | 2 workshops a year | End 2019 | |
| ISM | Initiate and strengthen collaboration with other security working groups | 1 joint workshop with WISE Participation at the Security Day at TNC19 | September 2019 | |
| ISM | Actively participate at the GN4-3 Security work package, taking the advisory role | Share the baseline documents with T2 and review their outcomes Support the Security Awareness group with the resources already collected Actively promote and participate at CLAW2019 Crisis management event | End 2019 | |
| CISS | Refreshing and rebuilding the community. Global live inventory of “who does what”. | 2 meetings, 1-2 BoF at conferences and regular calls scheduled on yearly basis. | ||
| CISS | Industry engagement, federated, hybrid private-public architectures, cloud connectivity. | Regular information exchange with relevant industry partners. Getting in, out and in between of the clouds | ||
| CISS | Common cloud execution workflow. Research and education engagement, use cases. | Sketching of a massive, scalable, reliable cloud execution platform with modular work-flow encapsulation, living document. → CS3MESH4EOSC proposal | Expected June 2019 |
2018
| SIG | Planned Achievement | KPI | Due Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ONGOING |
| 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 | ACHIEVED |
| 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 | ONGOING |
| 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 | ACHIEVED |
| 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 | ONGOING |
| 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 | ONGOING 2/3 achieved |
| ISM | Further advance implementation of security management for NRENs | A set of documents produced and published | Dec 2018 | ONGOING |
| 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 | ONGOING |
| 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 | ACHIEVED |
| 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 | ONGOING (APAN46 report missing) |
| 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 |
2017
| SIG | Planned Achievement | KPI | Due Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCOPE | Write and or revise and publish Best Practice Documents including environmental elements | 2 Best Practice documents | May 2017 | ON GOING |
| SCOPE | Establish the community through face-to-face and online meetings | two meetings organised and held online or face to face | May 2017 | ONGOING |
| SCOPE | Establish a structure and plan for the future to align the Green ICT and Campus Best Practice works streams | Sustainability plan Manifesto | May 2017 | ONGOING |
| 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 | DONE |
| ISM | Increase 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 | DONE |
| ISM | Design 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 | DONE |
| ISM | Implementation of security management for NRENs | Set up a working group (April 2017) First documents produced and published (December 2017) | 2018 | DONE ONGOING |
| NOC | Supervise 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 | DONE ONGOING |
| NOC | Define and agree on key topics of interest and organize the SIG meetings around those topics. | Next coming SIG-NOC meeting is being discussed | April 2017 | DONE |
| NOC | Put 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 engagement | April 2017 | DONE |
| Greenhouse | Implement use of Commons Conservancy within the community | 2 x projects in Conservancy | Dec 2017 | DONE |
| Greenhouse | Write a report on software dependencies | Document for circulation at GA | Sept 2017 | DONE |
| Greenhouse | Create a Greenhouse "manifesto" | Manifesto | Sept 2017 | NOT STARTED |
| Multimedia | Organize 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 | DONE |
| Multimedia | Extend 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 | DONE |
| Multimedia | Organize 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 | DONE |
| 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. | DONE | |
| CISS | Common 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. | DONE | |
| CISS | Industry 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... | DONE | |
| 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. | Number of individuals attending meetings as 1) total per year ≥ 45 (actual 55) and 2) average per ≥ 24 (actual 27.5 - as only 2 meetings) meeting, 3) year total from ≥ 5 (9 in total) GÉANT staff, number of organisations represented from 4) membership ≥ 15 and (Poznan 19, Dublin 16) 5) other organisations. ≥ 3 (1 Berkeley) | Jan 2018 | ACHIEVED |
| MSP | A 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 (Poznan 9 from 6 organisations, Dublin 15 from 9 organisations) meeting, 7) number of ‘external’ speakers per year, ≥ 1 (many new members attended MSP for the first time in 2017 e.g. GARR, CARNET, PSNC, CYNET) 8) number organisations presenting on average; ≥ 5 (7.5 organisations) | Jan 2018 | ACHIEVED |
| MSP | A yearly evaluation within the mailing list: Report on satisfaction levels and how results will inform future activities | (Survey being prepared - will be discussed at next MSP meeting) ≥ 12 responses to the annual survey, of which | May 2018 | ONGOING |
| MSP | Share discussions / meetings / topics with other groups | ≥ 1/y (done - meeting in Poznan with SIG-Marcomms) | Jan 2018 | ACHIEVED |
| 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 Exceeded in 2016 & 2017 | Jan 2018 | DONE 1) = 80 3) = 10 4) = 25 5) = 9 |
| Marcomms | A 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: Exceeded in 2016, partly achieved in 2017 | Jan 2018 | DONE 6) = 16 7) = 13 8) = 25 |
| Marcomms | Share discussions / meetings / topics with other groups | ≥ 1/y Achieved | Jan 2018 | DONE joint meeting with SIG-MSP & TF-RED in March 2017, and joint meeting with Global PR Network in June. CLAW workshop of 42 people included 11 from Marcomms |
| Marcomms | A 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 partly achieved in 2017 | Jan 2018 | DONE 5* rating for March meeting from 13.33%, 4* from 66.67% , 3* from 20%. (June meeting no survey, end of year meeting was CLAW - separate feedback mechanism.) Only 11 responses for end-of-year survey. 72.73% said the meetings as being useful for their everyday work. |
| NGN | Support the NREN community through face-to-face meetings, online meetings and mailing list discussions |
| Nov 2017 | NOT STARTED |
| NGN | Record the Technology Trends emerging within our environment |
| Jan 2018 | NOT STARTED |
| NGN | Encourage diversity from our community |
| Nov 2017 | NOT STARTED |
| PMV | Conduct 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 requirements | Nov 2016 | DONE |
| PMV | Document the scenarios requiring appropriate PMV solutions | Document a number of key scenarios upon which the SIG will study. PMV Scenarios | Jan 2017 | DONE |
| PMV | Document initial recommendation(s) for PMV framework(s)/architecture(s) based on the requirements and scenario analysis | Document initial high-level recommendations for scenario-based PMV solution(s) | Mar 2017 | DONE |
| PMV | Identify developers of PMV toolkits, to establish dialogue on implementation of the recommendations in year 2 | Contacts identified for PMV toolkit deployment / development in year 2 | May 2017 | DONE |
| PMV | Identify communities that are in principle willing to evaluate the PMV solutions that are to be deployed in year 2 | Communities identified for year 2 tests | May 2017 | DONE |
| TNE | TNE SIG developed critical mass and NRENs aware of presence with focus and objectives communicated | 15 NRENs ‘signed up’ to participate in SIG | July 2017 | DONE |
| TNE | Prioritised TNE SIG work plan and resource commitment for 2017-19 | Work plan with NREN leads identified | July 2017 | DONE |
| TNE | Understand 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 | ONGOING moved to 2018 - this work will be taken by working group 1 |
| TNE | Produce ‘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 knowledge | End 2017 | ONGOING moved to 2018 - this work will be taken by working group 4 |
| TNE | Joint communications activities to promote GÉANT TNE work |
| End 2017 | DONE |
2016
| SIG | Planned Achievement | KPI | Due Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISM | Establish the community through face-to-face and online meetings | Two meetings organised and held either online or face to face | July 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| ISM | Design a programme of work for future SIG development | An activity report for the Technical Committee (now GCC) | July 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| ISM | Gain support for the SIG from the community | Steering Committee members from at least 3 different organisations | August 2015 | ACHIEVED |
| NOC | Discuss, design and develop recommendations for a NOC Personnel’s Training (basic) and potential Certification Programme in order to bring/keep NOC staff up to the “standard” level. | List of recommendations | April 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| NOC | Invite NOC tool developers and organize half-day technical tutorial sessions on various products/topics. | 1 or 2 tutorials
| April 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| NOC | Extend the reach of the community to regional, metropolitan and campus NOCs. | 2-3 new NOCs to join in this category
| April 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| Greenhouse | Establish a framework for the proposed Conservancy | Agree MoU with NLnet for Commons Conservancy Work with 2 projects on Commons Conservancy model | July 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| Greenhouse | Establish baseline of software use and requirements for NRENs and the NREN community | Create list of Open Source products produced by NRENs and in use with service dependency.
| March 2016 | ACHIEVED |
| Greenhouse | Establish and promote recommended software quality process for NRENs | Process description on wiki and tested by three projects | December 2016 | NOT ACHIEVED |
| SCOPE | Write and or revise and publish Best Practice Documents including environmental elements | 2 Best Practice documents | May 2017 | NOT STARTED |
| SCOPE | Establish the community through face-to-face and online meetings | two meetings organised and held online or face to face | May 2017 | ONGOING |
| SCOPE | Establish a structure and plan for the future to align the Green ICT and Campus Best Practice works streams | Sustainability plan Manifesto | May 2017 | ONGOING |
| NGN | Support the NREN community through face-to-face meetings, online meetings and mailing list discussions |
| Nov 2016 | 40 PEOPLE 28 ORGS
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