While some e-infrastructures included accounting in their design and operations from the start, others are now
being asked or required to add accounting support to their existing systems. Typically accounting forms part of a
relationship between the infrastructure and some other organisation – perhaps a funder, host or customer –
rather than the infrastructure's relationship with its individual users. These organisations may be interested in
usage statistics across particular categories: for example by subject, by time, by project or by origin. It might be
Minutes of the eighth working group meeting, held in London on 25th April 2016.
Dave Kelsey's update on the Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration (AARC) project - https://aarc-project.eu/ presented at our April 2016 meeting.
Matthew Dovey's presentation on the European Open Science Cloud presented at our 8th meeting in April 2016.
Dan Perry's update at our April 2016 meeting about Jisc's cloud-related activities.
This document provides an introduction to the work of the UK e-Infrastructure Security and Access Management Working Group and the papers it has published.
Members of the group are:
Stephen Booth, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
Peter Boyle, Edinburgh University
David Britton, Glasgow University
John Chapman, Jisc
Andrew Cormack, Jisc
Darren Hankinson, Manchester University
Josh Howlett, Jisc
Henry Hughes, Jisc
Jens Jensen, STFC
David Kelsey, STFC
Paul Kennedy, Nottingham University
The various organisations participating in an e-infrastructure are likely to have their own policies on its use; harmonising those policies offers an opportunity to implement them more accurately, efficiently and effectively. This paper discusses how policies are likely to interact and how those developing policies can benefit from the coordination provided by using a common infrastructure.
In this article, issues related to correlating account IDs derived from attributes across collaborating systems are discussed. A technical solution is described that service providers (SPs) belonging to the same project can adopt for safely correlating attribute-derived data such as account IDs.
Minutes of the seventh working group meeting, held in London on 18th September 2015.
I was invited to present the work of our working group at a joint meeting of the UK HPC-SIG and the US Coalition for Academic Scientific Computing in Oxford last week. To describe what we've been doing I used the pictures we've developed of collaborating eInfrastructures from different perspectives: the interactions in security, access management and policies. Final versions of the diagrams can be found in our published reports.