ARNES: KAJ ENOTNA MREŽA PODPORE IN STORITEV PRINAŠA VSEBINI IN (PROJEKTNEMU) SODELOVANJU?

ARNES: WHAT DOES A UNITED NETWORK OF SUPPORT AND SERVICES BRING TO CONTENT AND TO (PROJECT) COOPERATION?

Tomi Dolenc, Marko Bonač, Avgust Jauk, Arnes

Povzetek
Kaj imajo skupnega različni udeleženci konference SIRIKT – univerze, šole, knjižnice, raziskovalci, muzeji…? Druži jih vsebinska povezava z znanjem, ki ga ustvarjajo, akumulirajo in prenašajo na druge, skupna jim je tudi želja po sodelovanju… in omrežje ARNES.
Arnes je nastal po vzoru evropskih nacionalnih izobraževalnih in raziskovalnih omrežij, katerih namen je prav čim tesnejše medsebojno povezovanje vseh takšnih uporabnikov, ki se ukvarjajo z znanjem. V ta namen jim gradijo posebno zmogljiva omrežja, kot je GÉANT2, in združeno na evropski ravni (TERENA) razvijajo skupno infrastrukturo in storitve, namenjene tej sferi. Z enotnimi standardi kakovosti, varnosti in podpore olajšujejo medsebojno sodelovanje, ki nima težav s prečkanjem meja.
Omrežja so zasnovana na tehnologiji optičnih vlaken in s podporo zahtevnim storitvam ter garancijo kakovosti do končnega uporabnika, če je le-ta ustrezno povezan v omrežje. Arnes sodeluje z drugimi omrežji pri vzpostavljanju mednarodno enotne programske infrastrukture (middleware) za ugotavljanje istovetnosti in avtorizacijo (AAI) – prvi sadovi teh prizadevanj se kažejo v hitro rastočem omrežju eduroam.
Multimedijski center z osrednjim strežnikom ter podporo pri vzpostavljanju kakovostnih domačih in mednarodnih videokonferenc z več udeleženci omogoča živo sodelovanje na daljavo, pa tudi prenos in arhiviranje dogodkov.
SI-CERT skupaj z mednarodno mrežo sorodnih centrov bistveno prispeva k povečanju varnosti omrežja in osveščanju o pasteh in zlorabah – s slednjim pa se posebej ukvarjajo tudi evropski projekti za Varnejši internet, v katerih Arnes sodeluje.
Naraščajočemu številu kompleksnih in avtonomnih spletnih vsebin bo Arnes ponudil gostovanje na svojih strežnikih, v letu 2007 pa bodo za uporabnike Arnesa na voljo tudi brezplačni strežniški certifikati .
Večina naštetih tem oz. storitev bo na konferenci podrobneje obravnavana v posebnih predstavitvah, upamo pa tudi na odziv uporabnikov, ki bo nakazal smeri nadaljnjega razvoja omrežja.

Abstract
What do the various participants of the SIRIKT conference – universities, schools, libraries, researchers, museum, etc. have in common? They are all essentially connected with knowledge, creating, accumulating or transferring it to the others, they also share a wish to cooperate… and the ARNES network.
Arnes was founded on the European model of national research and education networks (NREN), whose purpose is exactly to bring closer all those that deal with knowledge. Special high-performance networks, such as G É ANT2, are built for this community by NREN's. Joined at the European level in the organisation TERENA, we have developed a common infrastructure and set of services designed specifically for this sphere. With unified standards for quality, safety and support these facilitate mutual cooperation, which has no problems with crossing boundaries.
Networks are designed on the technology of optical fibres which supports the complex services offered and quality of service to the end user, if they are adequately connected to the network. Arnes is cooperating with other networks in establishing an internationally unified infrastructure programme (middleware) for authentication and authorisation (AAI) – the initial benefits of these efforts can be seen in the rapidly growing Eduroam network.
A multimedia centre with a central server and support for establishing quality national and international videoconferences with more participants enables remote, live participation, and additionally the transmission and archiving of events.
SI-CERT, together with an international network of similar centres, contributes substantially to the security of the network and provides advice and information about potential problems and abuse – and Arnes cooperates in European projects for a safer Internet. Arnes will offer hosting onits servers to an increasing number of complex and autonomous pieces of web content, and in the year 2007, Arnes users will have at their disposal free server certificates.
The majority of the listed themes or services will be debated in greater detail at the conference in specific presentations and we also hope to have feedback from the users, which will show us the direction of the future development of the network.