TERENA – NETWORKING THE NETWORKERS

Catalin Meirosu, TERENA

Povzetek
TERENA je neprofitno društvo Nacionalnih raziskovalno-izobraževalnihomrežij v Evropi. Ponuja forum za sodelovanje, dodajanje inizmenjavo znanja z namenom pospešiti razvoj internetne tehnologije,infrastrukture in storitev, ki so namenjeni tako raziskovalni kot izobraževalni skupnosti. Predstavitev se bo osredotočila na TERENO intehnični program, ki je glavno gonilo organizacije pri podpiranju skupnega delaza razvoj, vrednotenje, testiranje, integriranje in pospeševanje novegaomreževanja, infrastrukturne programske opreme ter aplikacijskih tehnologij. Na predstavitvibodo končni uporabniki dobili pogled na aktivnosti v okviru TERENEna področju računalniške nujne pomoči in ekip za pomoč pri incidentih(TF-CSIRT), služb za povečanje komunikacije (TF-ECS), evropskemiddleware koordinacije in sodelovanja(TF-EMC2) ter TF-mobilnosti.
Opravil se bo pregled delavnic NREN in Grid, tj. obeh dogodkov, ki se odvijatadvakrat letno in sta posvečena raziskovalno-izobraževalnim mrežam inomrežjem. Podan bo tudi povzetek ugotovitev zadnjih dveh delavnic.Servis "Server Certificate" bo predstavljen kot drugi način sodelovanjaorganizacij v okviru TERENE. Predstavljena bo tudi PEACHES, plošča zapospeševanje privzema naprednih omrežnih tehnologij na področjuumetnosti in humanističnih ved kot primer neposrednega sodelovanja medNREN-om in akademsko skupnostjo.

Abstract
TERENA is a not-for-profit association of the National Research and Education Networks in Europe . TERENA offers a forum to collaborate, innovate and share knowledge in order to foster the development of Internet technology, infrastructure and services to be used by the research and education community. The presentation will focus on TERENA's Technical Programme, the main vehicle of the organisation in supporting joint work for developing, evaluating, testing, integrating and promoting new networking, middleware and application technologies. An end-user view on the activities in the TERENA task forces on Computer Emergency and Incident Response Teams (TF-CSIRT), Enhanced Communication Services (TF-ECS), European Middleware Coordination and Collaboration (TF-EMC2) and TF-Mobility will be presented. The NRENs and Grid workshops, a bi-annual event dedicated to issues common to research and education networks and Grids, will be reviewed and findings of the last two workshops summarised. The Server Certificate Service will be presented as another way that organisations collaborate under the TERENA framework. PEACHES, an expert panel fostering the adoption of advanced network technologies in the area of arts and humanities will be presented as an example of direct collaboration between NRENs and the academic community.