GWS at Kyoto interop

[Guy Rixon]

Hi,

we have three GWS sessions at Kyoto: Wednesday afternoon, Thursday Afternoon
and Friday morning.

I see them split up this way:

 Wednesday: security issues, including:

  - trust models and establishment of certificate authorities;
  - single-sign-on arrangements;
  - privilege delegation;
  - account naming;
  - attribute authorities and interoperation with Shibboleth.


 Thursday:

 1. IVOA service basic profile, including:

  - review of VO support interfaces, including the WSDL contracts;
  - reports on SOAP interoperation experiences
    (possible "clinic" to discuss specific SOAP problems).

 2. Possible adoption of the "Universal Worker Service" pattern, including

  - possible IVOA standardization of AstroGrid CEA ideas and schema;
  - possible refactoring of the UWS contract to use WS-RF.

 Friday: VOStore/VOSpace, including:

  - review of current VOStore document;
  - reports from projects that have VOStore prototypes;
  - preliminary discussion of the VOSpace layer.

Does anybody have any other major topics they want to discuss?

Documents I would expect to have available (either because they already
exist, or because I'm volunteering to write them):

 - VO support interfaces spec (exists).
 - VO support interfaces WSDL (GTR to produce if nobody else does it first).
 - VOStore draft spec (exists).
 - VO service basic profile (exists).
 - UWS proposal (exists).
 - CEA standardization proposal (exists, IIRC).
 - Report on usefulness of Shibboleth (GTR to produce)
 - Outline architecture for SSO and authorization support (GTR to produce).

Any other material would be most welcome, particularly in the security area.

I would like to come out of the meeting with

 - VO support interfaces promoted to PR;
 - community approval of the VOStore direction
   (or a redirection if need be);
 - a strategic direction for CEA/UWS;
 - consensus on how we do the security this year (allowing for changes later).

I'll follow this email tomorrow with notes on current versions of documents.

Cheers,
Guy

Guy Rixon 				        gtr at ast.cam.ac.uk
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