BoF on co-development and co-delivery of NREN services
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Around 12-15 people attended the BoF, the 2nd on this subject in two years.

Services are already co-developed through efforts in the GN2 framework and in TERENA task forces.
Other examples are the effort to adapt the open source request tracker RT into RTIR,t
ailored for the CSIRT community, and the TERENA Server Certificate Service.

As SLAs are getting more important, we might look into a joint effort for the tools
needed for monitoring the SLAs (though the HEAnet example shows that the tools are not
the biggest problem -- see Victor Reijs slides in session 2A).

GRNET has presented their EGEE SLA management tools in another session,
doing several things going from network performance to helpdesk response time.

GRNET and HEAnet have also cooperated on an ethernet provisioning tool Anstool
(the GRNET name) or Bluenet (the HEAnet name).

Setting up a repository for ongoing NREN collaboration projects is another idea
to further promote exchange of ideas and collaboration.

Other examples:
-) SecureW2 (eduroam client for Windows): development funded by SURFnet,
used all across Europe in the meantime.
-) DAMe (authorisation mechanisms for eduroam): started in the
GN2 JRA5 joint research activity.

TERENA is a good partner for collaboration when you need a single point of contact/coordination,
like for example SCS where 8 NRENs started the procurement process coordinated by TERENA,
or the TERENA task forces.

Net news (nntp) is being shut down at many NRENs, because the number of users is decreasing,
and it is no longer cost-efficient to run the relatively expensive service for a small number of users.
A centralised European news server makes sense, as several NRENs see no problem in contributing several
thousands of Euros to a central news service.

It was noted that Google Groups already offers a free news service.
 
Magnus explained on the new storage project they started.
The segmentation of potential storage services looks like this:
-) raw storage (iscsi/fc)
-) archiving (long term storage +10yrs)
-) disaster recovery
-) document sharing
-) scratch disks (short term storage from days to weeks)
-) repository

Spain has use cases for a European iSCSI services, but integration with the federated access model is needed.
CRU already has a WebDAV/Shibboleth integrated storage service (web based storage).

Magnus and Alberto will prepare a report for the TTC.