[ggf-ogsa-sec-wg] Plans for OGSA-SEC WG at GGF6

[Nataraj Nagaratnam <natarajn@us.ibm.com>]

Greetings:

I would like to follow up on Marty's note. To be honest, we were expecting
to see some traffic in this mailing list, about the documents, agenda, etc.
- though the lack of traffic concerns us, we are assuming that you are all
swamped with other work and you will contribute to this WG -  as we get
towards GGF and/or at the GGF BOF.

I would like to emphasize the importance of the expertise and experience
each one of you have gained in the Grid space. We all have faced problems
to be solved in this space, solutions we came up with, common usage pattens
that can be viewed as requirements, etc. It is really important to share
that experience, bring them out in the form of requirements, identify
components that need to be worked etc. This will form the foundation for
the challenging task of addressing the Grid security requirements within
OGSA.

Success of this workgroup depends on active participation from each of you!
Looking forward working with all of you. See you at GGF6,

For
- Marty and Raj


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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