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AARC Engagement Group for InfrastructureS

The AARC Engagement Group for Infrastructures(AEGIS) brings together representatives from research and e-infrastructures, operators of AAI services to bridge communication gaps and make the most of common synergies. AEGIS ultimately enhances the wider and more effective uptake of AAI recommendations by infrastructures in their federated access solutions, so that they can focus on providing other support for research activities.

Objectives and Scope of AEGIS

Consult the expertise of participants for feedback on AAI activities;
showcase ongoing implementation efforts of the AARC Blueprint Architecture;
promote a consistent vision for federated access;
facilitate activities for the adoption of harmonised solutions and avoid ‘reinventing’ the wheel;
report on the adoption of and provide guidance on the AARC guidelines;
provide a home for the adoption and further development of the AARC Blueprint Architecture;
maintain, develop, and organisationally support the AARC community;
liaise with other entities in the AAI ecosystem.

Info

Charter

Version 1.0 – Endorsed on November 11th 2019

IPR

Version 1.0 - Endorsed on Novemeber 9th 2020

Contact

aarc-contacts at lists.geant.org

`The AARC2 project, like AARC, has made the strategic choice to entrust the implementation and the operations of the AARC results to existing research infrastructure and e-infrastructures. This choice is based on the consideration that existing infrastructures are better positioned to deploy and operate services and to implement any recommendations and best practices to guarantee sustainability and support for the scientific communities. For this reason, AARC2 will work, whenever possible, with research infrastructures and e-infrastructures, which will act as the delivery channel between AARC2 and the user communities they represent.

The "AARC Engagement Group for InfrastructureS" (AEGIS) will establish bi-directional channels between AARC2 and the infrastructures to advise each other on the developments and production integration aspects of the AARC results. The group will be composed by representatives of e-infrastructures and well-established research infrastructures as well as the AARC2 work package leaders and will be supported by the outreach and communication activity (NA2).

The group will ensure that:

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the results of AARC2 are known to all research infrastructures and e-infrastructures;

infrastructures and AARC2 team can discuss AARC2 sustainability models, implementation aspects and approaches to use-cases that may be received by AARC2;

all key parties share the same vision and the same information about AARC2 objectives and developments in the trust and identity area even if they may be in different deployment phases.

Participants

Person(s)	Organisation	Role
AARC
Christos Kanellopoulos (GÉANT)	GÉANT	Convener

Licia Florio

GÉANTAARC2 Project Coordinator

Andrea Biancini

RETIAARC2 Activity Leader (NA2)

, Architecture WG co-chair
Nicolas Liampotis	GRNET	Architecture WG co-chair
David Groep	Nikhef

AARC2 Activity Leader (NA3)

Nicolas Liampotis

GRNETAARC2 Activity Leader (JRA1)

Arnout Terpstra

SURFnetAARC2 Activity Leader (SA1)Infrastructure representativesPerson(s)OrganisationsInfrastructure

Klaas Wierenga, Ann Harding

GÉANT, SWITCHGÉANT

Johannes Reetz, Sander Apweiler

MPCDF, FZJEUDAT

Diego Scardaci, Tiziana Ferrari

EGI FoundationEGI

Mikael Linden, Michal Procházka

CSC, CESNETELIXIR

Eoin McHugh, Ralph Niederberger (provisionally)

ICHEC, FZJPRACEJim Basney,

	Policy WG co-chair
Dave Kelsey	STFC	Policy WG co-chair
Licia Florio	NORDUnet	AARC-TREE Coordinator
Members
Infrastructure / Organization	Representatives	Organisations
GÉANT	Klaas Wierenga	GÉANT
EUDAT	Mark van de Sanden Sander Apweiler	SURF, FZJ
EGI	Diego Scardaci Valeria Ardizzone	EGI Foundation
ELIXIR	Dominik František Bučík	CSC, CESNET
ACCESS	Jim Basney

Lee Liming

NCSA, University of Chicago

XSEDE

Peter Gietz, David Hübner

DAASI InternationalDARIAH

Meetings


DARIAH	Tibor Kalman Sally Chambers	GWDG, DARIAH ERIC
Life Science AAI	Daniel Kouřil Slávek Licehammer	MASARYK University
UmbrellaID	Jean-Francois Perrin Björn Erik Abt	ESRF, PSI
HIFIS	Marcus Hardt Klotz, Andreas	KIT, DESY
Observers
CERN	Paolo Tedesco Hannah Short	CERN
FENIX RI	Michele CARPENE	CINECA
Internet2	Tom Barton Sara Jeans	Internet2
WLCG	Brian Bockelman Francesco Giacomini	Morgridge, INFN
IRIS/STFC	Thomas Dack - STFC UKRI	STFC
SURF Research Access Management	Bas Zoetekouw	SURF
LUMI / PUHURI	Marina Adomeit Eivind Krieg Lysø	SUNET, CSC
Australian Access Federation	Sarah Nisbet	AAF
Digital Research Alliance of Canada	Darren Boss	Digital Research Alliance of Canada
Global Open Science Cloud	Jianhui Li, Hussein Sherief	Chinese Academy of Science, Africa Open Science Platform
National Institute of Informatics, Japan (NII)	first_name Sakane first_name Takeshi	NII