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| TF-CSIRT | Total attendees: 699 NREN / REN attendees: 90 Countries: 54 | 3 meetings:
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| September: March: May: | Incident response needs a community that has several well developed criteria for even one organisation to successfully operate. These features are:
More specifically in 2021, TF-CSIRT has had the following impact: - supported information sharing and contacts for specific security incidents. - defined a position on support for incident sharing within GDPR and the proposed NIS2 Directive. - seen over 80% of teams respond to the reaction test within 24 hours. - defined a future model to ensure the sustainability of TF-CSIRT and its services. - increased the number of accredited teams by 15 and the number of certified teams by 4. | September:
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| SIG-ISM |
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- October (still to take place)
2 meetings:
- March (Joint meeting with SIG-MARCOMS): 57 Participants
- October: 18 Participants
RDA/TF-RED Research data lifecycle meetings: Multiple meetings with around 25 individual participants in total across all meetings.
Values, vision and Strategy Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n4FIIkI8S-BsnlpYHRpjWzAeB5m-6g42W7a7-dY3wSY/edit?usp=sharing
98 NREN / REN attendees: 50 Countries: 26 | 2 meetings:
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TF-RED and EaPConnect Research Engagement Analysis: https://geant.box.com/s/epxoe8jnnbdvypr5qje39y628jaezsed
Past TF-REDs:
SIG-Marcomms online meeting, including TF-RED joint session, 29-30 March 2021
TF-RED All Hands VC October 2020
| Developing security expertise and excellence within the NREN community The CISO role has become increasingly important as organisations become almost totally reliant on IT information systems. As the role of NRENs expands and the range of services operating across the networks grows, information security is vital and users will expect NRENs to safeguard their network connection, online assets and resources against security threats and risks. Taking part in SIG-ISM can help equip NRENs with the skills to manage information security within their research and education community. The main aims of the SIG-ISM:
| Meetings serve to keep participants updated on current and upcoming challenges for security management. New regulations like NIS-2 are casting their shadows ahead, still a long time away but also a lot to prepare for. The GÉANT Security Roadmap for the future and steps forward. Sharing organizations security best practice and how each NREN looks at security operations. Topic introduction on "Zero Trust". Also presentations on the challenges of handling security risk in EOSC Project, a review of developments in Trust between the various operational security groups around the world, guidance for maturity assessment against the SCI Trust Framework and plans to maintain and develop the AARC Policy Development Kit. Analysis of cyber-attack trends - Emergency Cyber Surveillance Threats – how to prepare and how to protect organizations. Scanning new Legislation in EU for cybersecurity & some differences in UK (reality after Brexit) Preparation of next Phase of GÉANT Project. | ||
| TF-RED | Total attendees: 18 NREN / REN attendees: 11 Countries: 13 | 1 meeting:
RDA/TF-RED Research data lifecycle meetings: Multiple meetings with around 25 individual participants in total across all meetings. | Values, vision and Strategy Document |
Research Engagement provides the means for innovation and business development within the NREN community. There is a broad range of capabilities within the community, from those NRENs just starting out in the formalised engagement activities, to those very experienced dedicated teams from well established NRENs. Each NREN is on a different stage of the maturity journey but one common theme is that we can all learn from one another for ways to expand and enhance the interaction with the users of our services. TF-RED focuses on these features which help to foster innovation with our users:
- To provide an open forum. TF-RED formalises existing collaborations of NRENs and other research infrastructures to provide a trusted setting to work together to develop methods for engaging with researchers and collaborations nationally and internationally.
- To scope out innovation. TF-RED seeks to map out where Research is going globally and to provide ideas and a network of peers to work with across international boarders, with the intention to increase the understanding of research communities across continents.
- To develop a community. TF-RED provides a foundation for a nascent group within the wider GÉANT and NREN community. Meetings are held predominatly online due to the distributed nature of the community members with the ambition to build on and evangelise the role of talking to users in support of growing an NRENs userbase.
- To share knowlegde and best practices. TF-RED is the place to share information and methods for engaging with users and understanding their needs. Each country is different but continually evolving. What may work for one NREN could have applications for another on the otherside of the world.
More specifically in 2021, TF-RED has had the following impact:
- Developed a research engagement blueprint document.
- Investigated the research data lifecycle in collaboration with partners from RDA.
- Provided a forum for strategy discussions for data movement.
TF-RED Research Engagement Blueprint document: https://geant.box.com/s/kpw9m13dz4nj2wt4b1ir0qlt0lckcf05
TF-RED and EaPConnect Research Engagement Analysis: https://geant.box.com/s/epxoe8jnnbdvypr5qje39y628jaezsed
Autumn 2021 VC: TF-RED All Hands Autumn 2021
SIG-Marcomms online meeting, including TF-RED joint session, 29-30 March 2021
Research Data Lifecycle1n4FIIkI8S-BsnlpYHRpjWzAeB5m-6g42W7a7-dY3wSY/edit?usp=sharing |
X meeting:
- September: 41 participants
TF-RED Research Engagement Blueprint document: https://geant.box.com/s/kpw9m13dz4nj2wt4b1ir0qlt0lckcf05 TF-RED and EaPConnect Research Engagement Analysis: |
- October:
- How are external factors impacting on NRENs service portfolios
- NIS directive update
- Strategic Plans update
X meeting:
- December
- 45 Participants
- An update on the progress made to date in the GN4-3N refresh project.
- Experiences of integrating of new Inventory Management System
- Timemap: latency and jitter monitoring tool
- Network Automation e-Academy
- Post Covid operational processes - What is the new normal?
X meeting:
- Month
- XX Participants
The Special Interest Group on Next Generation Networks (SIG-NGN) facilitates an open forum where experts from the R&E community, vendors and experts come together to exchange information, knowledge, ideas and best practices about specific technical or other areas of business relevant to the advancement of the research and education networking community.
Promotion and co ordination of development and testing of innovative networking technologies as well as defining developing and testing new networking services, which can subsequently be introduced by research and education networks or the European backbone infrastructure are activities within this special interest group.
1 meeting:
- February
- 35 Participants
- Revamped the SIG activites after long break
- Agreed on options to collaborate in future
- Re-stated the fundamenal relevance of basic, direct community buidling around the Cloud
- Planning of the next SIG-CISS at TNC22.
- Organizing a dedicated SIG on the topic of
Storage services for the User Community - Currently proposing a Cloud Operators
BoF at TNC22
X meeting:
- Month
- XX Participants
Streaming, video / web conferencing, multimedia and real-time communications applications all help the flow of information between research and education institutions and the spread of e-learning capabilities. The GÉANT Special Interest Group on Multimedia – SIG-Multimedia – engages with experts in these areas from across industry and the wider research and education networking community and provides a forum for knowledge exchange.
The group facilitates interoperability among the current technology and service silos, and shares knowledge and information about existing solutions and planned developments and integrations in order to avoid the duplication of efforts where possible. It will advise and demonstrate innovative applications for both the high-end users (demanding 4K, 8K, real-time, interactive, low latency, secure and encrypted solutions) as well as the long-tail users (being educative, smart, easy-to-use, connected and interoperable).
s/epxoe8jnnbdvypr5qje39y628jaezsed Past TF-REDs: | Research Engagement provides the means for innovation and business development within the NREN community. There is a broad range of capabilities within the community, from those NRENs just starting out in the formalised engagement activities, to those very experienced dedicated teams from well established NRENs. Each NREN is on a different stage of the maturity journey but one common theme is that we can all learn from one another for ways to expand and enhance the interaction with the users of our services. TF-RED focuses on these features which help to foster innovation with our users:
More specifically in 2021, TF-RED has had the following impact: - Developed a research engagement blueprint document. - Investigated the research data lifecycle in collaboration with partners from RDA. - Provided a forum for strategy discussions for data movement. | TF-RED Research Engagement Blueprint document: https://geant.box.com/s/kpw9m13dz4nj2wt4b1ir0qlt0lckcf05 TF-RED and EaPConnect Research Engagement Analysis: https://geant.box.com/s/epxoe8jnnbdvypr5qje39y628jaezsed Autumn 2021 VC: TF-RED All Hands Autumn 2021 Research Data Lifecycle: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y_74WmZO8J1vRHbH7HdwP1F7tnuTWdX7pPtSCJiB6RM/edit?usp=sharing | |||||
| SIG-MSP | Total attendees: 70 NREN / REN attendees: 62 Countries: 29 | 2 meetings:
| The Special Interest Group on Management of Service Portfolios promotes collaboration between research and education networking organisations in Europe and other regions on the topics of strategic, business and cooperative management of services. The group provides a forum in which:
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| SIG-NOC | Total attendees: 129 NREN / REN attendees: 84 Countries: 33 | 3 meetings:
| The Special Interest Group on Network Operations Centres (SIG-NOC) brings together NOC managers, developers, operators, controllers and project managers as well as network engineers involved in the integration and optimisation of NOC-specific tools, workflows and processes. SIG-NOC facilitates knowledge exchange and collaboration, with participants discussing common issues, sharing experience, and developing common best practices. Today’s NOC functions are essential, costly, and critical in respect of national research and education networking (NREN) organisations’ main business, as well as of regional, metropolitan and campus network providers and infrastructure development projects. There is extreme diversity in NOC organisation, structure, and roles with a lack of common practices related to day-to-day NOC operations. The SIG-NOC aims to help the community to face such challenges. |
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| SIG-NGN | Total attendees: 194 NREN / REN attendees: 120 Countries: 34 | 3 meetings:
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| The Special Interest Group on Next Generation Networks (SIG-NGN) facilitates an open forum where experts from the R&E community, vendors and experts come together to exchange information, knowledge, ideas and best practices about specific technical or other areas of business relevant to the advancement of the research and education networking community. Promotion and co ordination of development and testing of innovative networking technologies as well as defining developing and testing new networking services, which can subsequently be introduced by research and education networks or the European backbone infrastructure are activities within this special interest group. |
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| SIG-CISS | Total attendees: 35 NREN / REN attendees: N/A Countries: N/A | 1 meeting:
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| SIG-Multimedia | Total attendees: 48 NREN / REN attendees: 37 Countries: 26 | 2 meetings:
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| Streaming, video / web conferencing, multimedia and real-time communications applications all help the flow of information between research and education institutions and the spread of e-learning capabilities. The GÉANT Special Interest Group on Multimedia – SIG-Multimedia – engages with experts in these areas from across industry and the wider research and education networking community and provides a forum for knowledge exchange. The group facilitates interoperability among the current technology and service silos, and shares knowledge and information about existing solutions and planned developments and integrations in order to avoid the duplication of efforts where possible. It will advise and demonstrate innovative applications for both the high-end users (demanding 4K, 8K, real-time, interactive, low latency, secure and encrypted solutions) as well as the long-tail users (being educative, smart, easy-to-use, connected and interoperable). Facilitating technology and service interoperability and sharing knowledge about multimedia solutions:
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| SIG-Marcomms | Total attendees: 147 NREN / REN attendees: 117 Countries: 44 | 3 meetings:
| Marketing and Communications are key to establishing an organisation’s brand, keeping conversations going and driving change. The Special Interest Group on Marketing Communications promotes collaboration opportunities between research and education networking organisations in Europe and beyond. More specifically, the group has proved to be an effective platform for the participants to share experience and ideas on strategic planning as well as best practices on the implementation of various activities, i.e. events and services promotion, internal and corporate communications, user engagement, communications campaign, and promotional material production. |
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| TF-EDU | Total attendees: 165 NREN / REN attendees: 104 Countries: 49 | 2 |
X meeting:
- September: 42 participants
- September:
Marketing and Communications are key to establishing an organisation’s brand, keeping conversations going and driving change.
The Special Interest Group on Marketing Communications promotes collaboration opportunities between research and education networking organisations in Europe and beyond.
More specifically, the group has proved to be an effective platform for the participants to share experience and ideas on strategic planning as well as best practices on the implementation of various activities, i.e. events and services promotion, internal and corporate communications, user engagement, communications campaign, and promotional material production.
- September:
Experiences and lessons from the past year.
WACREN website and newsletter
Clouds update
Cyber Security Month 2021
TEASER TASTER - FROM CONCEPT TO CONTENT
BRAND STRATEGY
WEBSITES - MULTI-LANGUAGE MANAGEMENT
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| TF-EDU aims to gather information, discuss and develop tools and best practices to address the common issues faced by NRENs with regards to their educational services and activities. The areas of interest include the digital learning environment – such as Learning Management Systems (LMS), Learning Analytics (LA), Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) – eduID, Open Educational Resources (OER) and more. TF-EDU opens a space to enable organisations and individuals to share their own practice (positive and less successful), focussing on two major tracks:
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| TF-eHEALTH | Total attendees: 60 NREN / REN attendees: 34 Countries: 28 | 1 meeting:
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| TF-DLT | Total attendees: 64 NREN / REN attendees: 39 Countries: 20 | 4 meetings:
| October: Kick Off Meeting 27th October 2021 Notes December: 2nd TF-DLT Meeting 14th December 2021 Notes February: 3rd TF-DLT Meeting (February 2022) Notes April: 4th TF-DLT Meeting (April 2022) Notes |
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December: Information sharing:
February: Information sharing:
April: Information sharing:
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