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11. European Activities

(a) TF-PR & TF-MSP

The Strategic Technologies Communications Manager attended the TF-PR meeting in Vienna on 7 September. Plans are in place to improve collaboration across Europe and work towards a more coordinated effort: a central repository is in the pipeline to share information and material relating to comms activities across NRENs.

(b) TERENA Networking Conference [more information]

The 2010 TERENA Networking Conference will take place in Vilnius in Lithuania from 31 May to 3 June 2010. Further details about the event can be found at:
http://tnc2010.terena.org.

The theme of the conference is "Living the network life". Calls for papers for the conference are being accepted at the present time.

(c) TERENA General Assembly

The TERENA General Assembly was held in Bucharest from 22-23 October 2009.

The meeting heard reports from the Technical Committee and details of the 2010 Activity Plan, and discussed collaboration with third parties in providing wireless network access.

(d) TERENA Compendium

Survey Data for the Compendium has been received from all NRENs and is currently being collated and analysed. We can expect the main findings to be available shortly and the Compendium to be available (in online form at least) by the end of the year.

(e) GEANT3 – Service Activity 3 Leadership

The GN3 SA3 and JRA3 activities held a joint Kick-Off meeting at the end of May to mark the start of the work of these activities, and to initiate planning of their respective tasks.

The eduPKI task began a sequence of interviews with the NREN-operated Certificate Authorities to establish their policies and capabilities, and also with the GN3 services to establish their requirements for PKI. In parallel, the eduPKI Policy Management Authority was established, satisfying the milestone of the project. The eduPKI task also completed its task-plan for the first year of the project.

The eduroam task continued the operation of this service. Three new NRENs signed the eduroam policy, bringing the total number of participating NRENs to 37. The process of refreshing the eduroam policy was initiated by issuing a call for any desired policy alterations to the eduroam community.

The eduGAIN task began work on defining the service's Business Case, Service Description and Service Definition. Significant progress has been made in developing the task-plan for the first year. It is expected that this will be finalised soon, allowing this task to proceed with the development of the necessary technical infrastructure shortly thereafter.

(f) GEANT3 - JRA1 Task 1 "Carrier Class Transport Network Technologies"

JANET(UK) participated in the GN3 Syposium in Vienna (8-10 September 2009). At the JRA1 Task 1 meeting which was a part of the Symposium, the scope of the task and the structure of the first deliverable were discussed. As a result JANET(UK) participation in the deliverable development was extended and now covers three sections: Ethernet developments (100GE and OAM), PBB-TE and General QoS.