1. GNOMIS – the northern light TF-AACE, 24.11.2002 Ingrid Melve, UNINETT

2. Northern light
What is happening in the Nordic countries regarding middleware
Nordunet2 research initiative
FEIDE and FEIDHE
SwUPKI and SPOCP
GNOMIS, the Greater Nordic Middleware Symposium

3. Learning networks

4. The Nordic area Sweden, Norway, Soumi/Finland, Denmark and Iceland
Queen Margrete and the Kalmar union
We are cold and high tech
Universities are flooded with students
Ubiquitous broadband
Mobile users, cell phones are body parts
Political will to do central projects (social democratic heritage)
Democrat -> democratic

5. Nordunet2
Follow up on Nordunet which established the operational NORDUnet and put the Nordic countries on the network frontier
Focal areas
Distance education and lifelong learning
Tele Medicine
Digital libraries
Infraservices

6. Infraservices is middleware
Infraservices projects
Directories
Transcoding, mobile support
GRID
Virtual Reality support
AA and GNOMIS
Test networks

7. GNOMIS
GNOMIS is a gathering of academic network professionals who develop and use middleware
Finns have done large scale end user testing of PKI technology and smart cards
Swedes have worked on server certificates and authorization
Norwegians build user management systems integrated with authentication services

8. GNOMIS (2) Workshop November 2001 Projects, hard work, mailing list
Follow-up meeting April 2002
Projects, more hard work and some play
Co-operative project: SPOCP (se-no)
Changing emphasis: less PKI for .no, more user admin for .fi
Workshop November 2002
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9. GNOMIS (3) GNOMIS was a dream GNOMIS is a reality GNOMIS helps us
Less work for me
Better system for users
Sharing results
GNOMIS is a reality
GNOMIS helps us
Hash out problem space

10. Who participates in GNOMIS
People with real problems
Ongoing projects
Operational services
Pilots
System administrators from universities
National Research Networks
People who build or configure solutions for others

11. FEIDE: common academic electronic ID in Norway
Building a common electronic ID
Standard person/user information
Standard resource information
Enable easy login facilities
Building blocks
User name/password in schema
Legal issues wrangled once
PKI, possibly support for smart cards
Common authentication service
Establish a common authorization service

12. FEIDHE/HSTYA
Investigate possibilities for implementing a smart card based electronic identification
Testing smart cards in applications
User authentication
Digital signatures
Deployment steps recommended
Make related modifications to the user administration
Deploy services relying on PKI
Distribute smart cards to the users

13. SwUPKI Swedish University PKI
PKI used (mostly) for server certificates
5 participating universities (so far)
Sample policies available, easy to join
Operations and policy decisions are separated on top level Certification Authority

14. SPOCP test Simple Policy Control Project
5 Swedish universities, Sunet and Uninett
Testing policy control server for authorization
Centralized authorization
Support for Access Control List descriptions

15. Summing up
Nordic area is collaborating on solving middleware challenges
Middleware makes networked life more complex
Middleware is on its way
Directories of information
Software on servers and clients
Policy and formal agreements
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