1. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Status and plans of the APGrid PMA Yoshio Tanaka (yoshio.tanaka@aist.go.jp) Grid Technology Research Center, AIST, Japan

2. APGrid PMA: Asia Pacific Grid PMA General Policy Management Authority in Asia Pacific Launched on June 1 st, 2004 Defines minimum CA requirements APGrid PMA approved that we accept two levels of CA: Experimental-level CA Alternative of the Globus CA Can be trusted within A-P communities Production-level CA Strict management is necessary Expected to be trusted by international communities

3. Members and CAs AffiliationNameProduction CAExperimental CAHere? AIST / JapanYoshio Tanakain operation yes ASCC / TaiwanEric Yenin operationnoneyes KISTI / KoreaJae-Hyuck Kwakin operation yes CAS / ChinaKai NanCP under reviewin operationno IHEP / ChinaGonxing SunCP under reviewnoneno BII / SingaporeKishore Sakharkarno planin operationno (yes) NCHC / TaiwanJulian Yu-Chung Chenplanningin operationyes Osaka U / JapanSusumu Dateplanningin operationyes SDSC / USAMason Katzno plannoneno HKU / HongKongChen Lin, Elaineno planin operationno U of Hyd / IndiaArun Agarwalno planin operationno USM / MalaysiaBoon Yaikno planin operationno VPAC / AustraliaDavid Abramsonplanningin operationno

4. Status Many members were inactive could not have motivation for active participation satisfy with using experimental CA (simple CA) non experts of PKI/Security and have less interests for the security Situation is going to be changed Some CAs have a plan for launching a production- level CA IHEP / China, CAS / China, NCHC / Taiwan, VPAC / Australia U. of Tsukuba is involved in Lattice QC Grid project and it expects NAREGI CA to be trusted by European and American CAs APGrid PMA should be able to help this.

5. Plans Change membership General membership has no voting right Ex officio membership has voting right has obligation for commitment representatives of production-level CAs representatives of experimental-level CAs in request basis Invite representatives of relying parties to the APGrid PMA Change accreditation procedure Now: voting using emails Plan: have regular face-to-face meeting / VTC (regular meeting and request-basis) Define procedures for re-certify CAs peer-audit or PMA (chair) will audit all CAs Should establish formal relationship with the other PMAs ASCC, IHEP should belong to only APGrid PMA

6. Summary APGrid PMA has two main objectives: be responsible as a regional PMA in Asia Pacific define minimum CA requirements accredit and audit CAs support CAs in Asia Pacific help / give advice to launch CAs inform the current status and future direction about our efforts (IGF) It was less active, but the situation is going to be improved. Re-organize the PMA Changed the accreditation procedure Will have face-to-face meeting Will do audit