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Collaboration is Happening
Harold Teunissen et al.April 2012 - #I2SMM12
Updates from the Netherlands and Beyond...
Collaboration is Happening: Updates from the Field and Beyond - I2SMM12 - Arlington, VA
Cyberinfra in the Netherlands
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• All ICT activities for Higher Education and Research in the Netherlands are brought under one umbrella
Shared Professional and Educational Services
Scientific Computing & Storage
Commercial ICT Products & Services
National Research & Education Network
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About SURFnet
• Development and exploitation of - the Dutch National Network for Higher Education and Research - innovative ICT platforms & services
• By and for the Dutch Higher Education and Research community- 160+ connected organizations, 1 million users- Combines the demand of connected institutions- 100% ownership SURF- Not for profit, 85 employees- Over 14,000 km dark fiber
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Changing Behaviors
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HierarchicalSecrecy
Loose AllianceSluggishNovelty
Tunnel VisionInstitution
Single Discipline
Self OrganizingTransparencyCollaboration
UrgencyInnovationDidactic
IndividualMulti-Disciplinary Source: Sir Ken Robison
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Motive
• Cloud cloud cloud — data explosion• Sharing sharing sharing — connectivity explosion• Go go go — study + work + play + collaborate + organize
+ share + et cetera
• Collaboration is key to you and your team’s success!
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Source: AMD
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New core business
• Modern universities are developing towards loose conglomerates of (inter)discipline expertise
• Collaboration is therefore a core business• Scientific collaboration involves groups of people in
multiple institutions, disciplines and countries• Collaboration is about using shared services and
resources
• Virtual Organization = People + Groups + Resources + Multi-Discipline + Services + Policies + Funding + ...
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*a.k.a. Virtual Collaboration
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Collaborations and Partnerships
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• Virtual Research Team- Focused on doing research- Small scale - Temporary and elastic- Little ICT awareness- Users
• “Virtual” Infrastructure Provider- Focussed on providing infrastructure for specific discipline- Well-organized with grands and budgets- Longer term- Better ICT awareness- Not virtual (ESFRI projects, CLARIN, Lifewatch, LOFAR, NBIC)
Virtual Laboratory
Virtual Project
Virtual Colla-boration
Virtual Breeding Environment
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Enabled by
Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration
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OpenConext
• Provides the glue and lubrication middleware to make campus, cloud based services and resources usable for collaboration for both inter campus and virtual collaboration scenarios
• OpenConext o!ers the Identity and Group Infrastructure
• O!er the platform software for large, virtual collaboration-type collaboration to run-you-own
• OpenConext allows you to create your own collaboration environment that organizes your (online) applications, services and resources
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Core Components
• Federated Identity Management — SAML• Groups Management — Grouper• Social Network 'Portal' technology — OpenSocial• Collaboration Services and Resources
- Document Sharing- Video Collaboration- Learning Systems- Data Storage- Data Mining- Workspaces- Workflows- Et cetera
9000CALORIES
100% SATISFACTION
Virtual Organization
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Architecture
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Simplified view
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SAML2 Federation
SAML2 Identity ProviderADFS TBD
OpenConextEngine
JANUS
OpenSocialContainer
Web Portal
Service Registry
Policy Management
Attribute Management
Group Management
OpenSocialRest
XACML
TBDGadget
Grouper
OpenSocial RestOAuth
SAML2 SP SAML2 Metadata
Online Service
* Developed by SURFnet
XACML
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Getting Organized
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InfrastructureDevelopment of OpenConext and exploitation
of SURFconext federated identity and groups management middleware
AdoptionPilots to support the adoption of new services
provided through SURFconext
Vendor Management
Online/cloud/collaboration services supply chain
InfrastructureDevelopment of OpenConext and
exploitation of SURFconext federated identity and groups management
middleware
AdoptionPilots to support the adoption of new
services provided through SURFconext
Vendor Management
Online/cloud/collaboration services supply chain
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It is about getting the product...
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Source: Alaine Delorme
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...to market
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Source: Reuters
• Creating an eco-system of online services• With the same conditions for whole community• Both serving the short and long tail in service demand
- Collaboration services (e.g. Google Apps, O"ce365)- Audio & video (conferencing) services (e.g. Cisco WebEx) - Infrastructure as a Service (e.g. Amazon AWS, greenqloud) - Niche services for specific research and education domains
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Vendor Management
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Lifecycle
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Phase 1: Prioritization
Phase 2:Selection
Phase 3:Fitting
Phase 4:Realization
Phase 5:Exploitation
Service Management
License Agreements, Policy Framework, Shared
Values and Mutual Expectations set
Results: Signed Contracts
Wish Lists, Demand Assessment, and Market &
Domain StudiesResults: Shortlist per domain
Contact with Supplier Feasibility Study: Strategic,
Technical, Organization, LegalResult: Go — No Go
Launch Event, Periodic evaluation of shared values, policies, etc.,
strengthen relationshipResults: New Opportunities
Formal connection to infrastructure (network,
SURFconext, etc.)Result: Service available for
Users
Mockup Inspiration: pnikolov.deviantart.com
MarketplaceOne Stop Shop for Online Services (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) for Higher Education and Research in the Netherlands
#0.15/GB#3.50/50GB/seat
#0 #0.12/VM/hr
greenqloud
Box
Google for EducationOur public compute cloud automates many of the tedious and di!cult to manage tasks of system administrators and is a complete self-service ...
Google Apps for Education is a free suite of hosted email and collaboration applications exclusively for schools and universities....
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Service Brokering — Vision
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Service Pipeline 2012 YTD
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Challenges
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• How to deal with di!erent types of Service Providers, Users and Business Models (at least 12 variants)- Policies and license agreements, technical requirements, etc.- Opt-in vs Opt-Out, International and multi-domain aspects- Provisioning and deprovisioning
Business Service Provider Users
Profit3rd Party
One Distribution Channel
Non-Profit3rd Party
One or more institutions with bi-lateral contracts
ProfitInstitution
Limited to constituency
Non-ProfitInstitution
Open to all
ProfitVirtual Organization
Limited to constituency
Non-ProfitVirtual Organization
Open to all
Stakeholder Matrix
• Open Exchanges is a stepping stone for open collaborations (e.g. technical or organizational) where trust plays important part
• Anyone may become a member of an Open Exchange• Links may be connected to the Open Exchange• All members are allowed to exchange any kind of tra"c• There’s no policy inside the Open Exchange
preventing any destinationor kind of data
• “Policy is open”
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Open Exchanges
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Open Exchange
member
member
member member
member
member
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Instances
• An Open Internet Exchange (e.g. AMS-IX and NYIIX) plays a supporting role by o!ering a shared and open infrastructure where multiple networks can meet at a central location in order to exchange IP tra"c
• Other variants Open Lightpath Exchanges (e.g. MAN LAN and Netherlight), and Open Mobile Exchange
• An Open Collaboration Exchange (OCX) is an exchange point (a service) where (inter)national IdPs and SPs can be interconnected at the lowest “cost”
• Next to the technical infrastructure the exchange may require a policy and is also likely to include a governance body...
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OCX — Rationale
• Facilitate international collaborations and virtual organizations
• Make it easier for global interconnection of IdPs and SPs• Harmonizing attribute exchange that will result in more
SPs that potentially become (technically) available to more individual (sets of) IdPs
• Ideally, for any participating country, SPs and IdPs will have to ‘openconext’ only once to become part of the exchange
• Add-on to eduGAIN
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Current Situation
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IdP
IdP
IdPIdP
SP
SPSP
SP
SURFconext
Service Provider
from the USA
Identity Provider
in the Netherlands
Access Federation
in the Netherlands
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Current Situation
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IdP
IdP
IdPIdP
SP
SPSP
SPSP
SP
SPeduGAINPolicy &
Metadata Exchange
IdP IdP
eduGAIN
IdP
SP
SP
SURFconext
UK ACFED
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OCX Concept
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OCXPolicy & Metadata
& Technical Exchange
openconext.org
IdP
IdP SP
IdP
IdP SPIdP
SP
IdP
SP
IdP
SP
SP
SP
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OCX Concept
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openconext.org
IdP
IdP SP
IdP
IdP SPIdP
SP
IdP
SP
IdP
SP
SP
SP
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Scenarios — Distributed Exchange
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edu.openconext.org
uk.openconext.org
fr.openconext.org
IdP
IdPIdP
no.openconext.org
jp.openconext.org
nl.openconext.org
exchange.openconext.org
SP SP
SPSP SP
SP
ca.openconext.org
jp.openconext.orgcom.openconext.org
nl.openconext.org
uk.openconext.org
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Scenarios — Multiple Exchanges (1)
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IdP
jp.openconext.orgIdP
SP SP
SPSP
SP
ca.openconext.org
IdP
nl.openconext.org
fr.openconext.org
uk.openconext.org
SP
edu.openconext.org
IdP
ca.openconext.org
jp.openconext.orgcom.openconext.org
nl.openconext.org
uk.openconext.org
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Scenarios — Multiple Exchanges (1)
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IdP
jp.openconext.orgIdP
OpenConextExchange API
SP SP
SPSP
SP
ca.openconext.org
IdP
nl.openconext.org
fr.openconext.org
uk.openconext.org
SP
edu.openconext.org
IdP
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Scenarios — Multiple Exchanges (2)
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OpenConextExchange API
SP
bamboo.openconext.org
IdP
clarin.openconext.org
fr.openconext.org
jp.openconext.org
SPSP
uk.openconext.org
edu.openconext.org
SP
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Challenges
• Again, it is all about trust and its balance with usability• For individual SP-IdP cases the eduGAIN policies might require
strengthening with bi-laterals which might lead to policy creep• Stepping stone for SPs, but how to get the international VOs
involved• Hierarchy of trust and policies• Next steps — we would like to invite NRENs to work out both
OCX scenarios- Organizational- Technical- Legal / policy wise
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