Minutes of the 1st TF-CSIRT meeting - Terena

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Concluding the discussion on this agenda item Don Stikvoo rt invited all CSIRTs presentto apply for level-2 status.6. Update on FIRSTKlaus-Peter Kossakowski gave a short update. Of the 86 current members of FIRST, 34are in Europe. The next FIRST event will be a Technical Colloquium, which will takeplace in Karlsruhe in October. For 2001 two Technical Colloquia are planned, both in theUSA. Technical Colloquia are open only to FIRST members. The next FIRST conferencewill be held on 17-22 June 2001 in Toulouse, and is organised by Michel Miqueu andDavid Crochemore.Michel Miqueu mentioned that the Toulouse conference is announced on the FIRST Website. The call for papers has been published, and sponsorship is being sought. Heunderlined that the FIRST conference is open to everyone.David Crochemore added that it was the intention to focus the conference on the realwork of CSIRTs. The event will start on Sunday evening and run until early afternoon onFriday. It will consist of 2 days for tutorials, 3 days of conference sessions and amembers meeting.There followed some discussion as to whether TF-CSIRT should organise its plannedworkshop for new (staff of) CSIRTs on these two tutorial days. In the end it wasconcluded that it would be best not to combine that workshop with the FIRSTconference.Claudia Natanson suggested that European CSIRTs should be presented at the FIRSTconference. Klaus-Peter Kossakowski thought that this might be done at the beginning ofthe conference, e.g. 30 minutes on TF-CSIRT followed by short presentations by two orthree European CSIRTs. It was agreed that Gorazd Bozic would submit a paper to presentTF-CSIRT. It was agreed that in addition the TI team would submit a paper to present theTI pilot service.7. Results of yesterday's Seminar sessionsThe seminar sessions on the day before this meeting had been very worthwhile. Allspeakers were asked to send their slides to Yuri Demchenko, who would put them up onthe TF-CSIRT Web site.The first seminar session had been on current practice in CSIRTs, with presentations byLe CERT RENATER, DFN-CERT and BTCERT. The meeting found this kind ofseminar session very useful and asked the Secretariat to organise a similar session at thenext TF-CSIRT meeting.The second session had been on PKI. The conclusion was that PKI was a very importantissue for CSIRTs, but in most cases it was not the CSIRT teams themselves but their
close colleagues in the NRENs who were working on PKI and setting up a certificationauthority.Karel Vietsch mentioned that PKI/CA had come up recently in a number of TERENAactivities: in TF-CSIRT but also in the Middleware Workshop and in the new TERENATask Force on LDAP service deployment. Adjacent to the TERENA General Assemblymeeting in Paris in October there would be a mini-symposium on PKI with speakers fromCREN and IBM. TERENA planned to set up a separate activity for harmonisationbetween PKI/CA work of NRENs in Europe.There followed a discussion as to whether a PKI hierarchy should be set up for CSIRTsin Europe. Could the TI act as a certification authority for this community? Don Stikvoortfelt that technically it would not be difficult to issue certificates but managerially it was acompletely different matter. For the moment this seemed like a bridge too far. It wasagreed to discuss this matter further at the next TF-CSIRT meeting; Don Stikvoort andChristoph Graf would prepare that discussion.The third session had been on the Incident Description and Exchange Format, with YuriDemchenko presenting the draft and participants in the meeting providing usefulfeedback.8. Security contact entry in the RIPE databaseIn the previous meeting Wilfried Wöber had volunteered to take on this action item, butunfortunately he could not attend this meeting. Shortly before the meeting he had sent aprogress report by e-mail, but that report consisted mostly of an object format descriptionand it was unclear exactly what the current status of the discussion in RIPE was. It wasalso not clear if the discussion in TF-CSIRT could be postponed until the next meeting ordecisions would have to be taken before then.Gorazd Bozic would ask Wilfried Wöber to explain the current status on the TF -CSIRTmailing list, and then conduct the discussion further on that mailing list.9. Requirements for a Training Workshop for New (Staff of) CSIRTsIn the previous meeting it had become clear that whether existing CSIRTs would beinterested to send their new staff to a training workshop depended very much on thecontent and form of the workshop. It had been decided to discuss the requirements forsuch a workshop in this meeting.Andrew Cormack reported that he had learned from CERT/CC that they are consideringfranchising the training courses that they had organised before in Pittsburgh. It wasunclear if TF-CSIRT could use that material; some of it might be useful. It was remarkedthat these courses are long (3 days) and expensive. Andrew Cormack would find outmore about them.
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