ESP-GRID Wiki

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Evaluation of Shibboleth and PKI for Grids project, (ESP-GRID), based at the University of Oxford.

Wiki managed by Mark Norman and Alun Edwards, July 2005-

Welcome to the ESP-GRID wiki!

Here you will find most of the output from our project. Firstly you may wish to have a look at our [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~markn/ESPGRID/ESPMainProjPlan1_0.pdf original project plan]. We've varied from it only a little, so the main aims have been addressed.

Our first main deliverable was to investigate the requirements for access management for grids in general. This proved more difficult than anticipated, but we now have a host of resources, if you're thinking of looking into this area yourself:

• See our main GridRequirements page for the main findings and a list of useful bibliographic resources on this subject

• The final list of requirements for a generic grid are listed on the RequirementsDoc page

• To inform this work a lot of reading and summarising have been done regarding use cases for grids: see our UseCases page for plenty of detail and other references

The next work of the project was to evaluate how relevant are Shibboleth and (separately) client-based PKI to these general requirements. Some further work on the PKI part is anticipated from Matthew Dovey, but a comparison document was prepared mostly addressing the use of Shibboleth, but also looking at the shortcomings of client based PKI. This document is named ShibEvaluation (but also addresses PKI).

ESP-GRID Work Packages

GridRequirements Requirements gathering from literature and focus group

• RequirementsBibliography sources and references to articles and papers used in this Requirements gathering exercise

• FocusGroup notes and reports from the focus group meeting

• UseCases use cases for a generic grid

ShibEvaluation Evaluating the possible role of Shibboleth with grids.

PolicyManagementAndExchange - Looking at methodologies for managing the access management policies between users home domains, VOs and grids.

[:VODefinition:Towards a definition of a VO] an initial discussion document following GGF16 (Athens) where this knotty problem was aired honestly.

• (Strictly this was not an eSP-grid work package, but appeared to be very important for the policy management consideration).

EvaluationPages - These are pages where we intend building an evaluation of the project outcomes and findings.

(For Alun and Mark), see FinalWorkplan for last few months' work.

We have a page of MeetingNotes, including conferences attended and meetings with collaborators.

Quick starting points and links:

• RecentChanges: see where people are currently working

• FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways

• SiteNavigation: get an overview over this site and what it contains

• GridRequirements: work in progress from Mark and Alun

  • RequirementsBibliography sources and references to articles and papers used in this Requirements gathering exercise

  • FocusGroup notes and reports from the focus group meeting

  • UseCases use cases for a generic grid

• ESP-GRID mailing list at Jisc Mail http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=ESP-GRID for general discussion for the project.

• RTS calendar http://rts.oucs.ox.ac.uk/calendar/month.php

For guidance as to how to find your way around and to add information to this wiki, see the InitialGuidance.