1. Internet2 Middleware: What’s In It For You
Russ Tokuyama <russ at hawaii dot edu> © 2004 University of Hawaii
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2. Introduction What is Internet2? Scope of Internet2
Universities, Corporations, Affiliates, Associations
Scope of Internet2
Initiatives, Applications, Engineering, Networks, Middleware
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3. What is Internet2? Universities working with government and industry
Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies
Accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet
The Internet reborn
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4. What is Internet2? Universities Corporations Affiliates Associations
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5. Universities Brown, MIT, Harvard, Yale
U Indiana, Carnegie Mellon, U Memphis, U Texas
U California, Stanford, Arizona State, U Washington
U Hawaii, U Alaska Fairbanks
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6. Corporations IBM, Microsoft Research, Apple, Napster, McAfee
Juniper, Qwest, Verizon, NTT
GM, Steelcase
Warner Bros, Comcast Cable, CSPAN
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7. Affiliates American Distance Education Consortium CERN
Cleveland Institute of Music
FDA
JPL
New World Symphony
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8. Associations non-profit, higher ed
ACUTA (Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Ed)
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9. Scope of Internet2 Initiatives Applications Engineering Networks
Middleware
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10. Initiatives Middleware End-to-End Performance K20 (K12 + Higher Ed)
Arts & Humanities
Digital Video
Distributed Storage
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11. Applications
“These are applications that can make difference in how we engage in teaching, learning, and research in higher education.”
- Ted Hanss Internet2 Dir for App Dev
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12. Engineering Campus Bandwidth Management IPv6 Mulitcast Security
Topology
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13. Networks Backbone Network Infrastructure
10 Gbps backbone
100 Mbps desktop to desktop (goal)
FiberCo (Natl Research & Ed Fiber Co)
The Quilt
Network services at lower cost, higher performance, greater reliability and security
ARENA (Adv Research & Ed Network Atlas)
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14. Middleware MACE (MW Architecture Committee) FOO (Federating Orgs Org)
Shibboleth (web access control)
OpenSAML
Signet Privilege Management
Vid-Mid (conferencing, on-demand)
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15. Internet2 Middleware What is middleware? Scope of middleware
Why middleware?
Internet2 and NSF
Is it for you?
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16. What is middleware?
Layer of software between the network and applications
Provides services
Identification
Authentication
Authorization
Directories
Security
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17. Scope of middleware Core middleware Upper middleware Identifiers
Authentication
Directories
Certificates and PKI
Upper middleware
Services that apps want to have provided so that they don’t have to do it themselves
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18. Scope of middleware
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20. Why middleware? Reuse (rememba da wheel) Standardization
Interoperability
Foundation to build on
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21. Internet2 and NSF NSF has its own Middleware Initiative NMI
NMI Release 5 includes open source software, white papers, and best practices from Internet2 and others
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22. Is it for you? Barriers to entry Free to you Collaboration
Enterprise
SMB
Free to you
Collaboration
Interoperate
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23. UH and Internet2 Middleware
Early Adopters
WebISO
Directories
Shibboleth
What UH has taken advantage of
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24. Early Adopters March 2000 workshop Application required
Campus environment
Readiness
Identifiers, authN, directory, trust models, champions, funding
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25. WebISO SSO for the Web Fewer sign-ons Pubcookie
LDAP verifier
CoSign and A-Select (NMIR5)
UH Web Login Service (Yale’s CAS)
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26. Directories LDAP Recipie Netscape DS / iPlanet DS / Sun ONE DS
SSL enforcement plug-in
FERPA compliant
Fed from UH Identity Management System
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27. Shibboleth Web-based access control Federations
Inter- and intra-institutional
OpenSAML
Trust models – mutal authentication with PKI certificates
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28. What UH has taken advantage of
LDAP Recipie
CAS
Internet2 people
Ken Klingenstein
Michael Gettes
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29. Opportunities to use Internet2 MW
Resources
White papers, best practices
Open source software
Getting involved / Collaborating
Working groups
Join
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30. Resources Internet2 http://www.internet2.edu/
NMI EDIT
UH Middleware
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