SIENA European Roadmap on Grid and Cloud Standards for e-Science and Beyond

The <strong>SIENA</strong> <strong>European</strong> <strong>Roadmap</strong> on Grid and Cloud Standards for e-Science and Beyond
Conclusions Recommendations Future Directions
The most important recommendation of this roadmap is to:
Undertake determined and targeted efforts to discourage fragmentation, while at
the same time preserving innovation in the development of e-infrastructure.
In support of this recommendation we believe the following actions are necessary by all
stakeholders to achieve the desired outcomes:
Fund participation in the long-term development of an adequate set of open standards
to ensure the interoperability of future <strong>European</strong> infrastructures for research and
e-government.
Public sector and commercial providers should engage more to explore shared standards
requirements.
An ongoing process is needed to track emerging standards, technologies, and best practices
in order to create and maintain a structured repository of open standards (from various
SDOs) for grids and clouds, and provide updated guidance to <strong>European</strong> e-infrastructure
projects. This activity will benefit from interaction with worldwide initiatives and other
<strong>European</strong> projects (e.g. NIST, GICTF, CESI, CAMSS 34 , SEMIC.eu 35 , etc.).
Encourage and fund the definition of sound security policies concerning the access, use
and provisioning of services within distributed infrastructures.
Introduce guidelines for dealing with data privacy, long term data curation, liability and
taxation issues in clouds and grids for work across legislative boundaries.
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Fund procurement of open source or commercially provided software solutions
allowing the research community to innovate in areas where they can add unique value
beyond the scope of commercial solutions.
Fund on-demand cross-domain provisioning of high-speed data transfer links (light
paths) with defined service level agreements.
Involve <strong>European</strong>s citizens in e-science through volunteer computing (using, e.g.,
desktop grids and clouds).
34] ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7407.html. See also footnote n. 20.
35] www.semic.eu/semic/. See also footnote n. 21.