Participants Kyriakos Baxevanidis-EU Kors Bos, NIKHEF Brian Coghlan, TCD, Irish event Licia Florio, TERENA, TACAR David Groep, NIKHEF, CA Coord Chair Matti Heikkurinen, CERN Jens Jensen, RAL Christos Kanellopoulos, AUTH Fotis Karayannis, GRNET Diego Lopez, REDIRIS, TF-AACE chair Excused: Antonia Ghiselli, CNAF Peter Hanak, NKTH Dave Kelsey, RAL Paolo Malfetti, CINECA Norbert Meyer, POZNAN Ferenc Vajda, SZTAKI, Dany Vandromme, RENATER Jules Wolfrat, SARA Agenda items. 1. Introduction of participants -All 2. Introduction of EU Infrastructures - Kyriakos Kyriakos explained the overal context and framework for the eInfrastructures initiative. (See also White paper chapter 0) 3. Objectives for The Irish event - Brian - 5 minutes (Objectives- working groups - continuity: Mirco and Kors) Brian identified the 5 main sub-objectives: - Promote a policy and administrative framework to enable resource access and sharing - Discuss a concrete authentication framework towards the establishment of /European Policy Management Authority for Grid Authentication in e-Science/ (EUGridPMA)/ aiming at harmonizing authentication efforts in the Grid environment for science http://www.eugridpma.org/ - Initiate discussions for an authorization framework (to be taken up by the Dutch presidency) - Coordinate related fudning programmes - Provide international cooperation (US-Japan) 4. White paper discussion a. Overview (Team + review ToC)- Fotis 10 minutes b. Questions and Answers - All 10 minutes c. Assignment of responsibilities - Fotis 10 minutes Fotis reviewed the current team and proposed responsibilities for the different subsections. (see attached document) General comments: White Paper long. The introductory sections should be cut off at a later stage. 5. Timeplan- Action points - 5 minutes - 3rd of March, Wednesday- First contributions should arrive - 5th of March - Friday, Next Conference Call, +32 2 600 85 06 - Investigate possible sub-group meeting at GGF in Berlin, - Investigate possible sub-group meeting at CERN 14-17 (since the EGEE All activity meeting and DATATAG conference will take place). By the week of 17th of March we should get a first good draft.