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Compendium
The TERENA Compendium of National Research and Education Networks in Europe is the first stop when looking for basic information about NRENs. Published since 2001, the Compendium provides unique information about the development of NRENs in key areas such as legal form, users, network, traffic and budget and staffing. The 2005-2008 editions were part of the GN2 project, providing basic analysis of developments over time and comparisons between groups of NRENs. From 2009, production of the Compendium is supported by the GN3 project.
CSIRT Training
Together with FIRST, the global Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, TERENA regularly organises training workshops for (future) members of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs). The training course covers the organisational, operational, technical and legal issues involved with running a CSIRT. The course is based on the materials that were developed originally in the TRANSITS project which ran from 2002 until 2005.
Development Support
Assistance to the development of research and education networking in less-advanced regions aims at understanding the status of research and education networking in less developed regions in and around Europe and undertaking specific actions in support of the research networking organisations in the countries concerned.
The work is part of the GN3 project. From September 2004 until March 2009 the work was part of the GN2 project.
ECAM (European Committee for Academic Middleware)
The European Committee for Academic Middleware (ECAM) was established in September 2006 as a steering committee for both TERENA Task Forces (TF-EMC2 and TF-Mobility) operating in the middleware area.
eduroam
eduroam, which has been running since 2003, is the educational network roaming infrastructure that allows users from participating institutions to access a wireless LAN at other participating locations using their home institution's credentials. The eduroam infrastructure is based on 802.1X standard technology and RADIUS proxy servers backend.
TERENA Secretariat staff are part of eduroam's European confederation level Operational Team, which is funded by the GN3 project.
End-to-End Provisioning
Today, individual e-science applications can generate network flows measured in Gbps, enduring hours, days or even weeks, often between a well-defined set of nodes, and with tight constraints on quality of service. The needs of such applications are best met by 'traffic engineered' point-to-point circuits, rather than 'best effort' routed networks. That is why the provisioning of end-to-end (E2E) lightpaths (i.e. Gigabit Ethernet circuits or even lambdas) is becoming very important in the service portfolios of national research and education networks (NRENs).
EuroCAMP
The TERENA EuroCAMP (European Campus Architecture Middleware Planning) workshops started in 2005. The aim of EuroCAMP is to reach out to the European campuses and promote state-of-the-art middleware technologies.
FEDERICA
The FEDERICA project will implement an experimental network infrastructure for trialling new networking technologies. This infrastructure is intended to be agnostic as to the type of protocols, services and applications that may be trialled, whilst allowing disruptive experiments to be undertaken. The aim is to develop mechanisms that will allow such experiments to be run over existing production networks without adverse effect.
TERENA Secretariat staff lead: the project's networking activities concerned with dissemination and with development and involvement of the user community; a joint research activity investigating novel architectural paradigms for virtualised infrastructures facilitating user control.
GLIF
GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, is an international virtual organisation that promotes the paradigm of lambda networking. GLIF provides lambdas internationally as an integrated facility to support data-intensive scientific research, and supports middleware development for lambda networking. GLIF was established in August 2003.
NGN Workshops
These events are held in order to exchange information about lower-layer networking issues (typical Layers 0-4), and to provide an open forum for discussing new initiatives. Research and education networks (national and regional), network researchers and commercial vendors are welcomed.
NREN - Enhanced Communication Server (N-ECS) images
The Task Force on Enhanced Communication Services (TF-ECS) packaged together previously available open-source software components to create ‘NREN - Enhanced Communications Server’ (N-ECS) images. This package allows easy installation - either on a physical server or a virtual machine - of a fundamental back-end SIP (Sessions Initiation Protocol) server infrastructure for secure videoconferencing, which is preconfigured to allow a quick start. The 'TERENA SIP Handbook' describing the software and documenting the way to install it was also produced by the group. This is targeted at NREN administrators and university campus network administrators.
NRENs and Grids Workshops
The purpose of the NRENs and Grids workshops is to bring together members of the NREN community with members of Grid projects in order to understand the common issues for these communities and to seek agreements and recommendations. TERENA has been running the NRENs and Grids workshops since May 2005.
NRENum.net Service
NRENum.net provides countries, where the Golden ENUM Tree (e164.arpa) is not available, with the possibility to publish ENUM data. The NRENum.net tree is queried by the participating partners in case no ENUM data is found in the Golden Tree. Those countries that have already access to the Golden Tree cannot get a delegation in NRENum.net.
NRENum.net is an effort of National Research and Education Networks (NREN). More information about NRENum.net can be found in the wiki charter. Currently over ten counties participate in NRENum.net.
Partner Services Promotion
Partner Services Promotion (PSP) is a brand new task within the GN3 project and is led by TERENA.
PSP is available 'as a service' to help NRENs develop and carry out their plans to promote GÉANT-related end user services. PSP can help with creating or adapting promotional materials, by exchanging ideas, experience and expertise, and by providing manpower and other resources.
REFEDs: Research and Education Federations
REFEDs wish to address to need of existing and emerging e-identity federations
operating in the field of education and research in Europe, America and Asia to
collaborate on policy issues. Collaboration in this area is needed to learn from
each other, to align policy in order to facilitate inter-federation work, and to reach
outside the research and education community to enable federated access in the
larger world.
SCHAC (SCHema for ACademia)
The SChema for Academia, SCHAC, is the result of the work carried out in the area of attributes coordination to address inter-institutional data exchange, recognised by the TF-EMC2 group as a real need.
TACAR
Since 2003, TACAR (TERENA Academic CA Repository) offers a trustworthy solution to the problem of downloading root CA certificates. The problem that TACAR addresses is the use of Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) and how to get the appropriate root CA certificates needed by browsers in a practical and cost-effective manner. A possible solution that can be applied within the TERENA community is the provision of a trusted repository which contains verified root CA certificates.
TERENA Certificate Service (TCS)
The TERENA Certificate Service (TCS) allows a variety of digital certificates to be offered to research and education institutions served by participating National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). These are provided by Comodo CA Limited, one of the largest worldwide Certification Authorities.
TERENA Networking Conference
The TERENA Networking Conference has developed into the place to meet for NREN managers, senior technical staff, industry representatives, policy and decision makers and researchers. Through keynote speeches by renowned specialists and many parallel sessions, the Conference presents an overview of all the latest developments in research networking, both in the technical field and in the areas of application and management. A selection of the best papers is published every year on the web and an archive of presentations is available as well.
TF-CPR: Task Force on Communications and Public Relations
The task force on Communications and Public Relations, TF-CPR, promotes collaboration between research and education networking organisations in Europe in the areas of communications, marketing and public relations, through activities at the level of Communications / PR Officers / Marketing Managers.
TF-CPR is the new name of a task force previously known as the Task Force on Public Relations and Information Dissemination, TF-PR, which was first established under the auspices of TERENA on 1 October 2003. In September 2009, the name changed to TF-CPR, the Task Force on Communications and Public Relations, which participants agreed better reflects the broader nature of their activities. The re-named task force is operating with a 2-year mandate, which started on 1 October 2009.
TF-CSIRT
Computer security incidents require fast and effective responses from the organisations concerned. Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs), either internal or outsourced, are service providers responsible for receiving, reviewing and responding to computer security incident reports and activity. TF-CSIRT is a task force that promotes collaboration between CSIRTs at the European level, and liaises with similar groups in other regions.
Secretarial support for this task force is provided by TERENA with funding from the GN3 project.
TF-EMC2
TF-EMC2, the TERENA Task Force on European Middleware Coordination and Collaboration, started its mandate in September 2004. Over the years TF-EMC2 has given birth to several activities, such as SCHAC, REFEDs, TACAR and so on. All these activities are still coordinated within the task force, although they have an autonomous life.
Secretarial support for this task force is provided by TERENA with funding from the GN3 project.
TF-Media: Task Force on Media Management and Distribution
The community of national research and education networking organisations (NRENs) has found that it is in a good position to provide audio and video recording, repository and distribution services to universities (where e.g., lectures can be recorded, archived and distributed), taking into account special requirements regarding quality, searchability, copyright, policy, etc.
Secretarial support for this task force is provided by TERENA with funding from the GN3 project.
TF-Mobility and Network Middleware
The development and deployment of mobile technologies and the usage of network middleware to support interoperable roaming services, are becoming key activities among NRENs and academic research institutions.
The TERENA task force on Mobility, which started in 2002, promotes the adoption of such technologies. In September 2008, new terms of reference were approved, and under these the remit has been slightly changed to reflect the outcome of the redefinition of focus of the two TERENA middleware-oriented taskforces, TF-EMC2 and TF-Mobility. Consequently, TF-Mobility will focus on roaming and networking middleware and will be known as TF-Mobility and Network Middleware.
Secretarial support for this task force is provided by TERENA with funding from the GN3 project.
TF-MSP Management of Service Portfolios
The purpose of the task force TF-MSP is to promote collaboration between research and education networking organisations in Europe in the area of management of service portfolios.
TF-Storage
The storage task force TF-Storage coordinates the development of open and inter-operable data storage and management infrastructures and services among national research and education networks and academic and research institutions.
TF-Storage continues the discussion on opportunities and areas for collaboration on data storage services which began with two meetings in 2007.
Secretarial support for this task force is provided by TERENA with funding from the GN3 project.
Training
TERENA was involved in co-organising a number of training events under the GN2/NA8 (training) activity, and latterly the GN3 project, including security training, network monitoring and eduroam administration training.
Trusted Introducer
In Europe joint CSIRT activities are undertaken within a cooperative body called TF-CSIRT. To cooperate efficiently and swiftly when security incidents occur, a certain level of mutual trust is needed between CSIRTs. An important pre-requisite for mutual trust is shared and accurate operational knowledge about one another. The TI accreditation service is meant to do just that: facilitate trust by formally accrediting CSIRTs that are ready to take that step.