1. The Americas Grid Policy Management Authority TAGPMA Update Derek Simmel 27 th EUGridPMA Meeting Rome, Italy January 14-16, 2013

2. TAGPMA Update Overview – TAGPMA Leadership – Current TAGPMA Membership – Communication Infrastructure – TAGPMA Conference Calls – TAGPMA 17 & 18 (IGTF All Hands) – SHA-2 Deployment Timeline discussion 2

3. TAGPMA Leadership Current Officers – Chair: Derek Simmel (PSC) dsimmel@psc.edu – Vice Chair: Scott Rea (DigiCert + REBCA) Scott@DigiCert.com – Secretary: Ale Stolk (ULAGrid) astolk@ula.ve 3

4. OrganizationCountryRespresentativeAP/RP DigiCertUSAScott ReaAP ESNetUSADhiva MurugananthamAP GridCanadaCanadaRoger ImpeyAP IBDS ANSPBrazilSergio LiettiAP InCommonUSAJim BasneyAP NCARUSASteve BeatyAP NCSAUSAJim BasneyAP NERSCUSAShreyas CholiaAP NICSUSAVictor HazlewoodAP PSCUSADerek SimmelAP REUNAChileSandra JaqueAP SDSCUSAScott SakaiAP SENAMHIPeruOtto Huiman CarrascoAP UFFBrazilVinod RebelloAP ULAGridVenezuelaAlejandra StolkAP UNAMMexicoFrancisco MartinezAP UNIANDESColombiaAndres HolguinAP UNLPArgentinaPaula VenosaAP FNALUSAIrwin GainesRP OSGUSAJim BasneyRP REBCAUSAScott ReaRP THEGridUSAAlan SillRP WLCGSwitzerlandDave KelseyRP XSEDEUSAJim MarstellerRP CIDETYS / UTPPanamaQuerube UrriolaRP redCLARAChile/LACLuis A. NúñezRP Current TAGPMA Membership

5. 26 Members from North, Central and South America – Covering Canada, US, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Panama. 21 IGTF Accredited CAs – 12 Classic DigiCert(2) – US, UFF BrGrid & UFF LACGrid - Brazil, ANSPGrid – Brazil, UNLPGrid - Argentina, REUNA – Chile, ULAGrid – Venezuela, GridCanada, UNAM – Mexico, UNIANDES - Colombia. DOE Grid accredited by EUGridPMA – 7 SLCS NCSA x 3, FermiLabs, NERSC, PSC, NICS UTK - US – 2 MICS NCSA – US and CILogon – US 5

6. Current TAGPMA Membership TACC retired their membership in TAGPMA – CAs should be removed from IGTF & TACAR distributions 4 CA accreditations in-process – 2 Classic pending (SENAMHI – Peru, InCommon – US) – 2 MICS pending (SDSC, NCAR – US) 8 Relying Parties – (FNAL, OSG, XSEDE, THEgrid, LCG, REBCA, CIDETYS/UTP, redCLARA) New members – InCommon voted in as new prospective AP member – OGF has expressed interest in membership 6

7. Communication Infrastructure IGTF Website http://www.igtf.nethttp://www.igtf.net TAGPMA Website http://www.tagpma.orghttp://www.tagpma.org – Hosts static, public information & profiles – Overhaul still way overdue  TAGPMA twiki http(s)://tagpma.es.net/wikihttp(s)://tagpma.es.net/wiki – hosts in-process TAGPMA documents, notes, tutorials etc. – Contains agenda and minutes from monthly meetings Mailing lists tagpma-general, tagpma-private – Mailing lists have been moved over to Google Apps for Education, also enabling Calendar, Docs & Sites – E-mail any issues direct to the Chair (dsimmel@psc.edu)dsimmel@psc.edu 7

8. TAGPMA Conference Calls Regular Video Conference Calls are now Monthly, at 12noon Eastern (US) time on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. – Next call will be February 13, 2013 – Video arrangements: RedCLARA VC Espresso – Request for agenda items goes out ~1 week before the next call – The agenda is usually posted on tagpma-general e-mail list no later than 1 day before the meeting. All IGTF members and prospective TAGPMA members are welcome to attend our TAGPMA meetings! 8

9. TAGPMA 17 & 18 (IGTF All Hands) TAGPMA 17 – Colorado – May 9-10, 2013 – Hosted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR, USA) – Link to registration page will be posted shortly TAGPMA 18 – Argentina – dates TBD soon in October ~ November 2013 timeframe - stay tuned for a doodle poll link – TAGPMA 18 will be the next IGTF All Hands meeting 9

10. SHA-2 Deployment Timeline discussion TAGPMA members voted and did NOT approve the SHA-2 timeline as described in David Groep’s e-mail of September 10, 2012 An alternate SHA-2 deployment timeline, addressing TAGPMA concerns, has been developed and is available for review at http://tagpma.es.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/SHA2Timeline http://tagpma.es.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/SHA2Timeline Comments and questions are welcome 10