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24 | DFN Mitteilungen Ausgabe 84 | Mai 2013 | INTERNATIONAL
3. Global Service Delivery – An initial group of seven of the CEO
Forum’s NRENs are aligning their efforts on Global Service Delivery
and are collaborating on creating business models and
developing contracts to work with cloud providers on a global
scale. This initiative is not without significant challenge, specifically
with respect to achieving common global legal agreements.
The progress of this project requires rapid global development
and implementation in order for the sectors across the world
to seize immediate cost and efficiency benefits in the effective
delivery of market leading technology solutions.
4. Global Federated Identity Management – To support the effective
global use of cloud services and on-line learning environments
such as MOOCs, the CEOs committed to interconnect
each of their federations before the end of 2013. This effort will
be aligned such that the Global Realtime Communications Exchange
and the Global Service Delivery can build on the interfederation
work. This interfederation platform is a fundamental
building block ensuring seamless linkages of both people and
projects across both national and regional boundaries. It was
recognized that if the global NREN community did not pursue
this approach as a matter of urgency there was a risk that less
appropriate and fragmented solutions would be adopted which
would be highly detrimental to the coherence of global research
and educational collaboration.
In addition to these four challenge areas, there also was significant
discussion around the areas of both security and mobility,
particularly with the exponential growth in BYOD (bring your
own device) and the increased risk profile as big data hits extraordinary
growth rates. The CEOs created two new groups. The
first one to determine how we can keep our networks and services
both open and secure. The second one on how to take away
barriers in global mobile communications for our community,
leading to clearly developed action plans in order to assess and
address any R&E market failure.
On the area of working with existing global or regional expert
groups, the CEOs acknowledged their commitment to work with
these groups to determine how their efforts can contribute to
the initiatives of the Global R&E Network CEO Forum.
The CEO Forum will continue to move forward with regular video
conferences and will meet again face to face to ensure progress
against the specific project milestones. The strategic importance
of countries with emerging NRENs was clearly recognized
by the group with the next face to face meeting scheduled
to be held in South Africa at the end of 2013, a location which exemplifies
with a view to exploring further the advanced needs
of the global research community with the Square Kilometer
Array and the specific needs of developing NREN communities.
The Global R&E Network CEO Forum consists of the Chief Executive
Officers of AARNet (Australia), CANARIE (Canada), CERNET
(China), CUDI (Mexico), DANTE (Europe), DFN (Germany), Internet2
(USA), Janet (UK), NORDUnet (European Nordics), REANNZ (New
Zealand), RedCLARA (Latin America), RENATER (France), RNP (Brazil),
and SURFnet (The Netherlands). (kh) M
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