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Yet another presentation about the TCS eScience Personal Portal, what it is, current status, the road leading to the current situation and how the NRENs are organized.Held 29. October at USIT, Oslo
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What is “TCS eScience Personal Portal”?
A way to map a Feide identity to an X.509 certificate
• Simple webportal
• Existing and familiar framework (browser)
• Fast
• Third party CA (Comodo)
• Cheap (flat-rate charge)
TERENA CA Timescale
A European collaboration
• Eurpoean Service
• Utilizing establishidentity networks.
• Several NRENs usesame portal.
• Operated byUniversity of Tilburg(NL)
The portal itself
• Runs Confusa (v0.3)
• UNINETT Sigma & NDGF main contributing organizationsSigma coordinates through Henrik.
• Portal ready, accreditation moving forward.
• Ready for pilot users in December.
• “Playground” at https://beta.confusa.org/confusa(NTNU partially added, others are welcomed to join).
The workflow
Getting started - what the subscriber must doEach subscriber must:
• Read the CPS
• Sign contract withNREN (Feide,UNINETT).
• Assignentitlement-attribute(eduPersonEntitle-ment)Requires that the user has undergone
F2F photo-id vetting
• Promote the serviceto the users.
Open issues
• Under what name should the service be known?
• The best way of adding subscribers (videoconf?)
• Other interesting usecases (than “pure” grid)
Demo, links and questions
• Project Home:http://www.confusa.org/
• Main list:[email protected]
• The coming portal:https://tcs-escience-portal.terena.org/
• “Playground”https://beta.confusa.org/confusa
• IRC for developers/curious:#confusa@freenode