TERENA is pleased to announce that effective from 5 February 2010, the TERENA Certificate Service (TCS) will provide Personal and eScience Personal Certificates, as well as Code-Signing Certificates.
The TERENA Certificate Service allows a variety of digital certificates to be offered to research and education institutions in the countries of the participating national member organisations of TERENA. The certificates are issued by Comodo CA Limited, one of the largest Certification Authority providers worldwide.
The Greek Research and Technology Network, GRNET, will host the first TF-Media meeting on 18-19 March 2010, in Athens, Greece. The TF-Media task force meeting will be preceded by a GRNET workshop on academic media casting on 18 March 2010. Participants are invited to sign up to both events.
The next meeting of TF-Storage marks the conclusion of the task force's first two year mandate. TF-Storage will review and re-draft the terms of reference during the meeting on 4-5 March 2010, which will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and will be hosted by the Dutch national research and education network, SURFnet.
Five prominent members of the computer and network security community in Europe will present a two-day "TRANSITS" training course for staff members of new or established Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) on 4-5 March 2010 in Uppsala, Sweden.
Co-organised by TERENA, ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) and SUNET (Swedish University Computer Network), the course will focus on the operational, organisational and legal aspects of incident response. It is designed for professionals who are current or future members of existing computer security teams, or who will be involved in building such a team within their own organisation.
The majority of worldwide email can be considered 'spam' (unsolicited email). Over 30 participants from NRENs, universities and industry came together on 9 December to discuss how to detect and block spam email messages, in order to help overcome this problem which is expected to increase in the coming years.
The issue of spam suppression is not an easy one to solve. By coming together, there is hope of formulating a single, collaborative solution. TERENA's task force on management of service portfolios, TF-MSP, organised its first workshop on this subject in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to gauge interest on the subject and enable possible collaboration in the future.
Opportunities for the Ukraine to increase national and international scientific collaboration was the main theme of the latest round-table discussion, organised as part of the Development Support activity of the GN3 (GÉANT) project. Hosted by URAN, the NREN of Ukraine, at the Polytechnic University of Kiev, and organised by TERENA on 8 December 2009, 20 participants from several universities in Ukraine attended the discussion.
The workshop was a follow-up from a country needs assessment of Ukraine, carried out by TERENA in 2008 as part of a similar support activity in the GN2 project, the predecessor to GN3.
Participants heard presentations on provisioning and virtualisation systems, and on related standardisation issues at the On-demand Infrastructure Services Provisioning workshop, held on 8 December 2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Organised by the PHOSPHORUS consortium and TERENA, the workshop was a follow-up to a workshop and set of demonstrations that were organised by PHOSPHORUS in Malaga on the day before the TERENA Networking Conference 2009.
Representatives from national research and education networking organisations (NRENs) and from Alcatel-Lucent Bell labs, Cisco, Juniper and Nortel participated in the sessions, which were attended by about 35 people while another 10 followed the live video stream remotely. "It was an opportunity to synchronise our developments within the European research community and to align our visions and requirements for the coming projects", said Dominique Verchere (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France). "I would encourage repeating such a fruitful technical event."
Participants from campuses, research laboratories, and metropolitan, regional and national research networks came together at the TERENA End-to-End (E2E) Provisioning workshop to share their needs and ideas for potential provisioning work flows for E2E connectivity services. Held on 7 December in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, more than 40 people attended the meeting in person while another 15 followed the live video stream remotely.
This E2E workshop took on a broader focus than last year's event, by including the administrative, operational and coordination issues of E2E connectivity services across the whole end-to-end work flow as seen from various perspectives. "Today's workshop provided us the opportunity to get feedback from NRENs, manufacturers and users," explains Victor Reijs (HEAnet). "I really appreciate the input from different points of view."
The third European-level eduroam administrators ‘train the trainers’ workshop was held on 24–25 November 2009. Ten eduroam administrators from six European countries attended the two-part course at the training facility of the University Computing Centre (Srce) in Zagreb, Croatia. The event was organised by the TERENA Secretariat as part of the GÉANT (GN3) project and with local support from Srce.
TERENA staff were among the lecturers in the first workshop of the Saudi Academic Network (SAREN), which was an important milestone in the establishment of a national research and education networking organisation (NREN) in Saudi Arabia. The objective of the event, which took place in Riyadh on 17-18 November, was to raise awareness of the importance of having an NREN among the country's major stakeholders, including the academic community, the government, and the telecommunications and IT industry.