2024-10-11 - EOSC AAI WG Call

Participants

Agenda / Notes

Introduction to the EOSC AAI Working Group

• The meeting marks the beginning of the EOSC AAI Working Group, which is part of the Technical and Semantic Interoperability Task Force under the EOSC Association.
• This group continues the work of the previous EOSC AAI Task Force (2021 - 2023).
• Support from AARC (Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration) helps reach a wider community.

Membership and Participation Rules

• Membership includes official members of the Technical and Semantic Interoperability Task Force and contributors from the wider EOSC stakeholder community.
• International participation is welcomed, with non-European participants marked as observers.
• Participants who miss five consecutive meetings will not be considered active contributors and will not be added as contributors to the outputs of the WG

Focus on Practical Implementation

• The EOSC Association emphasises the need for practical, pragmatic approaches to EOSC implementation.
• The focus should be on creating clear, concise guidelines for newcomers and infrastructures joining the EOSC Federation.
• The group aims to produce shorter, more practical documents rather than extensive theoretical work.

Requirements and Architecture Profiling Activities

• The group will focus on understanding requirements and addressing them, rather than creating new standards.
• Work involves pushing standardisation requirements to international efforts in AARC and profiling how to apply standards within the EOSC Federation.
• Syncing with recent developments in the EOSC EU node is crucial.

Timeline and Milestones

• The group aims to update the EOSC architecture, targeting a new version by the end of 2025.
• Engagement with stakeholders and identification of new use case requirements is a priority, leveraging ongoing work in AARC-TREE.
• By Q1 2025, the group aims to have a clear understanding of the current status quo within EOSC and open issues/requirements.
• By the end of Q4 2025, the group will address identified gaps and issues in a time-boxed manner.
• In Q1 2026, the group will conduct another round of information gathering and requirement updates.
• By the end of 2026, the group will finalise their work and update the EOSC architecture.

Meeting Logistics and Communication

• Bi-weekly calls will be held initially, with the frequency to be reassessed after six months.
• A mailing list has been set up for communication between meetings.
• Meeting documents will remain closed to the public initially, with minutes published on a wiki page after acceptance at the next meeting.
• This approach balances openness with the need for a safe environment for discussion and addresses potential sensitivities around information sharing.

Actions

• Marina and Janos to share the list of stakeholders they are interviewing with the working group via the mailing list before the next meeting.
• Marina and Janos to present the status of the stakeholders interviews at the next meeting.
• Christos to close access to the Google document for meeting minutes and agenda.
• Rudolf to share the updated terms of reference document once approved by the board in the next few days.
• All members to familiarise themselves with the following material:
• The EOSC AAI Architecture v2022
• The latest version of AARC BPA
• The works of the AARC Architecture WG
• The works of the AARC Policy WG