Quarterly Reports

• 6th SIG-NOC meeting end of November in Utrecht
• Working with the GEANT Training and Development team to create NOC Training Programme
  
  

• All-hands VC on October 24th
• First draft of a baseline document to collect info on research engagement throughout the world

• Finished the Charter
• First meeting in Berlin, August 28th
• Second meeting in Utrecht, October 30th

• SIG-CISS (aka new TF-Storage)
• TF-RED
• SIG-TNE

RADAR exercise recommendations from GA paper. 

• Implementation of the response testing initiative.
• Completed the review of Trusted Introducer. 
• May 2016 meeting: https://tf-csirt.org/2016/05/17/riga/.  

• Announced support for the TLP protocol.
• September 2016 meeting: https://tf-csirt.org/2016/10/07/zurich/

SIG-ISM White Paper on security management: SIG ISM white paper security management.  

SIG-ISM risk consultation: RISK consultation VC, may 18th, 2016.

4th SIG-ISM Workshop took place in Dublin on 22-23 February. There are two working groups (WG1: Inventory for Security Officers & WG2: Guidance on setting up and running ISMS for NRENs); 3 active regional working groups established (NORDIC/BALTIC, Benelux, English speaking region). You can read the meeting report here: 4th SIG-ISM Workshop - Agenda, Slides & Notes

WISE held their 4th workshop in Amsterdam on 27-29 March. 28 experts worked in 3 working groups on: Minimum Set Risk Assessment Checklist (RAW-WG), lists of available trainings and training needs (STAA-WG) and Security for Collaboration among Infrastructures document (SCIV2-WG).

WISE held a meeting on 15 August in Arlington, USA, as part of the NSF Cybersecurity Summit. On-day programme included 4 sessions: Community Projects, Software Assurance, Risk Management and SCI Self Assessment Walkthrough. More information and slides here: WISE @NSF Summit

SIG-ISM Chair Alf Moens and Secretary Sigita Jurkynaitė published a blog on various security collaborations, including SIG-ISM and WISE:

https://wise-community.org/2017/07/31/security-is-the-new-black-of-the-re-community/

• SIG-Greenhouse report on NREN approaches to software sustainability: https://wiki.geant.org/display/GREEN/NREN+approaches+to+software+development.  
• SIG-Greenhouse report on open source software dependencies in NRENs: https://wiki.geant.org/display/GREEN/Open+Source+Software+in+NRENs.

Commons Conservancy registered as a company with notary in NL. 

MoU between GÉANT, NLnet and Commons Conservancy signed.

• SCOPE wiki space was created on the confluence wiki
• SCOPE discussion forum was set up for members to launch new discussions or engage in conversations on various IT, business or sustainability topics launched by members. Forum software was tested and initial topics explored.

• 5 Best practice documents from the former campus best practice national working groups are lined up for publication. Publication will be done on the new SCOPE wiki space where members have an opportunity to discuss good and best IT practices
• A plan is made to review a number of campus best practice documents and update with the inclusion of a green element.

• Meeting in Berlin
• Covering the handover from GN4-1 SA8 T2 (WebRTC Task) to GN4-2 JRA4 T4/5
• Keep the community informed about commercial services/solutions: Intel, Firefox, Jitsi, Callstats.io, Mconf
• Pulling together a market research about video and web conferencing service use either cloud-based or on-premises
• Preparing the ground for the GÉANT/NORDUnet joint Vconf tendering procurement

• Last meeting in Helsinki
• Keeping an eye on WebRTC standardization at IETF
• Focus on the Federated STUN/TURN service development fully covered by the GN4-2 JRA4 T4/5 tasks
• The community will be involved in the market research study for the service
• Agreed to close TF-WebRTC and re-create a new group with broader scope also on streaming, e-learning and mutimedia
• SIG-Multimedia was created and approved by the GCC.

SIG-Multimedia was established back in October 2016 to provide a forum for gathering and exchanging experiences, ideas and knowledge on the development, deployment, testing and standardisation of innovative multimedia protocols, infrastructures, services and applications.

The SIG-Multimedai Steering Committee members are

• Mihaly Meszaros, NIIF

• Rui Ribeiro, FCT

• Erik Kikkenborg, NORDUnet

• Bartlomiej Idzikowski, PSNC

The first face-to-face meeting co-located with the Up2U Project Workshop to be held on 8-10 May 2017 in Porto, Portugal.

Preparations for the meeting as well as identification of synergies between the GN4-2 and the Up2U projects' activities in the area of multimedia content repositories and real-time WebRTC-based communication services have been undertaken.

• The official task force mandate expired but the community remained engaged with all the spin-off activities
• Oversight on the ownCloud agreement, more then 400k end-user licenses counted on 15 July.
• Open Cloud Mesh project Phase 3 kick-off. Preparing for the formalization of the protocol.
• OpenStack Operators group calls bi-weekly

• Discussion about the re-chartering was started
• Focus on the entire vertical cloud software stack, integrations and workflows
• Decided to close down TF-Storage and re-charter into a new format
• Proposal to be sent to GCC.

SIG-CISS (Cloudy Interoperable Software Stacks) was established in February 2017 in order to provide a broader forum for gathering and exchanging experiences, ideas and knowledge on the development, deployment, testing and standardisation of cloud infrastructure software stacks, platforms and workflows.

The SIG-CISS Steering Committee members are

• Maciej Brzezniak, PSNC
• Guido Aben, AARNet
• Simon Leinen, SWITCH

First discussion and informal group meeting is scheduled during TNC'17. SIG-CISS will be hosted by the Cloud Cafe people.

• Some SIG-NOC participants met at TNC'16
• Engagement with the wider community: E.g., Whether Forecast people in the UK
• Preparing for the NOC Training development work

• Business Case created for the NOC Training development and provisioning
• Meeting in November
• Focusing on automation of NOC workflows and functions )Configuration (network & servers), Monitoring, Fault response, Service recovery).
•  Organizing a one-day NOC Training Development Workshop

•  Meeting in April
• Focusing on best practices, automation, communication and security
• Further exploration of the training programme development. Seeing if a collaboration with EGI is possible.

Met 12 June 2016, preceding TNC16, in a joint meeting with the Global PR Network in Prague. 41 registered participants from 26 organisations.

• Explored communications challenges faced by African NRENs. By comparing them to the European and Latin American experience found many similarities. Discussed how to support the starting of a SIG-Marcomms-like PR network in the African region.
• Highlighted EventR community calendar and inthefieldstories.net blog as useful tool/channel
• Provided a summary of 'storytelling in marketing communications' training from previous meeting
• Updates from participating NRENs about their communications activities, challenges and experiences.

Met 27-29 September 2016, hosted by EENet of HITSA at Tallinn University, Estonia. 17 on-site participants from 11 organisations and 11 remote participants registered.

• GÉANT cloud services workshop
• Overview of all TFs and SIGs and opportunities to propose workshops & small projects in GÉANT Community Programme.
• Trialled blogging training and proposed rolling out to wider community.
• Discussed crisis management and communications and proposed a community workshop
• Followed up on June African PR Network discussion:
  • invitation to contribute to Ubuntunet conference communications workshop
  • hands-on work to start updating old 'How to...' communications documents
• Updates from participating NRENs about their communications activities, challenges and experiences.

Blog: https://blog.geant.org/2016/09/30/keep-calm-and-carry-on-communicating

Met 7-8 March in Poznan, hosted by PSNC, including joint meeting with SIG-MSP & participation by some TF-RED people. 32 on-site participants  & 5 remote participants from 17 organisations.

• Impacts of GDPR on NREN marketing & services
• Update on crisis communications & brainstorm for upcoming community workshop
• GN4-2 updates
• Contributions by PSNC, HEAnet, CSC, DeIC, CESNET, BELNET, SURFnet, EENet, Jisc, GÉANT
  
  

Met on 2 June, immediately following TNC17 in Linz, Austria, as a joint meeting with the Global PR Network. 36 on-site participants and 2 remote participants from 27 organisations across Europe (EU and EaP countries), North America, Latin America, Eurasia, Central Asia, Australasia.

• Explored challenges faced by Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries and gave them advice in a 'flipped' panel.
• Reviewed InTheField blog and plans for development (AARNet)
• Updates from participating NRENs about their communications activities, challenges and experiences (REANNZ, RESTENA, SINGAREN, CAREN and Asi@Connect project)
• Reviewed TNC17 topics interesting for further communications activities.

Blog here: https://blog.geant.org/2017/06/04/exchange-knowledge-as-communications-community-group-looks-east

In addition:

• secretary & SC chair participated in SIGs & TFs round table discussion at TNC17
• 4 SIG participants joined committee to formulate CLAW crisis management event.
  • SC agreed CLAW will replace customary Autumn SIG meeting so encouraging participants to register for that instead and bring their NOC & security colleagues.

Met 8-9 March in Poznan, hosted by PSNC, including joint meeting with SIG-Marcomms & participation by some TF-RED people. 28 on-site participants & 4 remote participants from 18 organisations.

Joint meeting inlcuded:

• European Open Science Cloud
• GÉANT-and-NRENs service portfolio
• Funet2020 new network

SIG-MSP meeting focused on:

• Clouds
• KPIs
  

More info here: https://blog.geant.org/2017/02/28/sigmsp-fruitful-feedback/

The Task Force was chartered in the previous quarter. No activity was scheduled in this quarter.

Discussion started on the KPIs to measure the SIG against. FOSDEM '17 was suggested as an event to co-locate. No formal meeting was scheduled.

The steering group defined KPIs for the SIG. 

• First meeting held in Zurich.
• Survey on performance and monitoring completed by the SIG.

•  Second meeting held in Amsterdam.  Work on SIG-PMV scenarios started: PMV Scenarios.  

SIG-TNE was established in February with over 20 NRENs supporting the activity globally.

The first planning meeting took place on 25 April in Washington DC (at the Internet2 Global Summit). The session was well attended by 30 participants from all continents. During this meeting, 4 groups worked on identifying the main challenges that transnational education related institutions are facing now. You can read the meeting report here: Meeting at I2 Global Summit 2017

The first SIG-TNE meeting took place at TNC17 in Linz. 22 participants from 12 NRENs/Institutions worldwide attended the meeting.

4 main working streams have been identified:

• TNE data
• Global TNE policies
• Technical Barriers
• Tools, toolkits and resources

Note and slides from the meeting can be found here: Meeting at TNC17