PTB Meeting

Europe/Zurich
Teleconference

Teleconference

Description
PTB meeting, 14:00-16:00, 14 December, 2010 Calling details: skype test conferencing service in Lund (call mailmagnes in skype) Proposed agenda: ---------------- - Approval of previous meeting notes, follow up on actions - Status check of "EMI agreements" in compute, data, security, infra areas - EGI User Requirements and its effect on EMI workplan Balazs's report from the EGI-TCB (see material https://www.egi.eu/indico/getFile.py/access?contribId=2&resId=0&materialId=0&confId=225) - AoB
Regular PTB meeting, 14:00 - 15:18 14th December 2010

Present: Marco, John, Morris, Balazs (notes)
Excused: Laurence, Patrick


1) Approval of previous meeting notes

Meeting notes of 30/11/2010 are approved.

2) follow up on actions

* Balazs initiates a survey to find out the work needed to support a list of specific platforms.

** pending, shifted to January

* Balazs: reports the situation with the monitoring task force to the PEB

** done, unfortunately still no manpower behind monitoring task force

* Balazs: schedules the "overview of EMI agreements" topic for the the next PTB meeting

** done, agreements were discussed on the meeting

* Balazs: makes sure the "components" decisions are properly publicized and information reaches partners/PTs.

** done. More careful communication is needed.


3)  EGI User Requirements and its effect on EMI workplan

Balazs informed the PTB about the EGI User Community Requirements presented to EMI at the December EGI-TCB meeting

The top 3 requirement:

* Better (more verbose and informative) error messages
* Fixing the known bugs before adding new features
* Coherency of command line commands, parameters and APIs

(see details at https://www.egi.eu/indico/getFile.py/access?contribId=2&resId=0&materialId=0&confId=225)

EMI PTB will have to prepare a plan on how to address these requirements by end of January.


4) Status check of "EMI agreements" in compute, data, security, infra areas

* Execution Service Interface
active group, close to concluding on the agreement
coordinator: Bernd
group: ARC, glite, Unicore partners equally represented
wiki: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/EmiExecutionService
communication: via the emi-jra1-standard@eu-emi.eu list
status: almost final draft is available
expected date: end of December

* Compute accounting record
(info to be provided later in the absence of area leader)
coordinator:
group:
wiki:
communication:
status:
expected date:

* Data accounting record
(info to be provided later in the absence of area leader)
coordinator:
group:
wiki:
communication:
status:
expected date:

* Common security attributes (XACML)
active group
Coordinator: Valery Tschopp
group: Common CE XACML profile
wiki:
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/EmiJra1T4XACML
communication: Argus mailing list status: Active, one agreement met
expected date: CREAM CE profile done, ARC underway.

* Common SAML profile
active group
Coordinator: Andrea Ceccanti
group: Common SAML profile
wiki: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/EmiJra1T4SAML
communication: emi-jra1-sec-saml@eu-emi.eu
status: Active.
expected date: UNICORE Chemomentum profile accepted as base. January 2011?

* Replacement of legacy GSI
active group
Coordinator: Vincenzo Ciaschini
group: GSI-Removal (bad name?)
wiki:
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/EmiJra1T4GSISSLMigration
communication: email/phone confs
status: Active.
expected date: Dec 2010 (hope)

* EMI delegation
recently launched group
Coordinator: Paul Millar
group: EMI Delegation
wiki: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/EmiJra1T4DelegationInEmi
communication: emi-jra1-sec-delegation@eu-emi.eu
status: Started, active, collecting non-Argus EES reqs. Understanding soon
expected date: Jan 2011

* AAI strategy
Coordinator: Provisional: John White.
group: EMI Security
wiki:
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/EmiJra1T4Security (soon to migrate)
communication: email
status: Started.
expected date: Feb 2011

* Messaging use cases
Coordinator: Lionel Cons
group:  Messaging PT
wiki:  https://tomtools.cern.ch/confluence/display/MIG/Use+Cases
communication: http://mail.eu-emi.eu/mailman/listinfo/emi-jra1-messaging
status: Active
expected date: April 2011 (official objective target date.)



5)  AoB

* Balazs informs PTB that final version of the DNA1.3.1 was sent to Brussels. The work on the month 11 update (March!) can soon start.

* Next meeting: as scheduled, 11 January 2011.

* EMI-UI task force update

ARC delegate: Anders Waananen
Unicore delegate:  Björn Hagemeier
dCache delegate: Christian Bernardt
gLite delegate: tbd

* Development plans: Morris informs the PTB about recent changes and progress.



Actions
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* Balazs initiates a survey to find out the work needed to support a list of specific platforms provide missing info for agreements

* Morris to create an inital wiki page for the EMI-UI task force

* Patrick and Laurence to provide details for the infra and data area agreement groups.
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