Plans for OGSA-SEC WG at GGF6

["Marty Humphrey" <humphrey@cs.virginia.edu>]

Folks,

(This is being sent to the ogsa-sec-wg mailing list as well as the
general
security mailing list. We will most likely stay on the ogsa-sec-wg
mailing
list from now on. To sign up for the ogsa-sec-wg mailing list, go to:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~humphrey/ogsa-sec-wg/ )

As of right now, we plan to have a single OGSA-SEC-WG session at GGF6 
during the Tuesday lunch session (12-1:30). Part of the purpose of this 
email is to determine if we should have two sessions.

The planned agenda for this single session is:
. Review of OGSA Sec WG Charter 
. Discussion of the drafts of the two documents 
. Set priorities for the specifications in the drafts 
. Identify participants and get commitments for authors 
    of new versions of the drafts, specifications identified in the
drafts 

Are there any other agenda items that people are interested in having?
Of course,
we are really looking for other topics and the leaders of these topics.
This 
working group will not _work_ if it's just Raj, Frank, and me :-)

Raj has made an excellent suggestion to me, which I have included here.
As a 
general model of the process of the WG, Raj believes that we should (I
believe
this as well):
   [1] Ask for folks to feed in requirements they see in the "Grid"
space
   [2] Validate whether those are already covered in the submitted docs
and
       extend/modify as appropriate
   [3] Identify the components that need to be built based on those
       requirements
   [4] Validate/extend/modify these components against the components
outlined
       in the arch doc
   [5] List the specifications that are needed to form an
open/standardized OGSA
       security model
   [6] Identify work that is in progress in the standards
organization/industry
       in these areas
   [7] Based on #6, identify the work that is not addressed elsewhere
and those
       that are important to OGSA - this is important to spend the
energy in GGF
       without duplicating efforts. Of course, if extensions or profiles
are
       needed under GGF, we need to do that.
   [8] Based on the identified set of specifications that we need to
work on,
       try to prioritize the list and come up with a
dependency/deliverable
       graph
   [9] Suggest spinning off workgroups based on specs identified to be
started
       under GGF (# above)
   [10] Work on deliverables that reflect the architecture/components
based on
       #4 and #8.

So, please recommend agenda items and leaders. In fact, we welcome any
discussion
regarding the direction/scope of the ogsa-sec-wg.

Again, we're planning on a very productive GGF6 session (or two)! We
hope to see 
you there! 

-- Marty and Raj
OGSA Sec WG Co-chairs

Marty Humphrey
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Virginia