Tutorials, Workshops and Co-Located Meetings

FIM4R community (Federated Identity Management for Research), meeting jointly with TAGPMA (The Americas Grid Policy Management Authority)

In-person meeting of the NTAC Peering & Routing working group. This long-standing open working group discusses issues related to BGP routing and peering on both the R&E and I2PX routing instances on the Internet2 backbone.

Dan Schmiedt willys@tamu.edu and
Tony Brock Anthony.Brock@oregonstate.edu are the co-chairs of this working group

What actions can increase mutual trust, assurance, and interoperability among federation participants, Community Trust & Assurance Board inviting discussion including REFEDS Assurance, research, and other service providers needing enhanced trust & assurance for federated access.

“Join us after your Monday tutorial or co-located events! This evening “social” gathering provides an opportunity to meet the folks working on all the newest developments being implemented on the Internet2 network. Many of the subject matter experts (SMEs) working on these new efforts (i.e., Cross-Connects, Routing Security, and Trusted Access topics, among others) will be present to answer questions, provide brief updates, and collect your ideas to share with their teams.

In addition, we collect feedback from attendees on such questions as:
What do YOU look for in a technical meeting? What elements of the current Technology Exchange format are working for you? What would you recommend we change?

These and other questions are open for direct feedback during this “come-whenever-available” session. Be sure to come by, grab a snack and a beverage, take our survey, and engage in discussion with individuals about the future designs for this event.”

Cirrus Identity offers a variety of solutions that support identity federation for Service Providers and Identity Providers. This session will provide some information about those services and how they integrate with TAP components. We will also seek input from the community on new development priorities. And we will have some food and fun!

Certificates have been around for quite a long while and we all miamust deal with them in one way or another.  In recent years, the CA/Browser Forum has tightened rules of issuance, like maximum certificate validity, which only increases the workload of already-overburdened IT staff.

The InCommon Certificate Service, powered by Sectigo, helps our community to manage the various challenges that come with managing large numbers of certificates.  Join us for  this BOF to hear Nick France, CTO of SSL at Sectigo, discuss various strategies for managing SSL certificates at scale using the features of the InCommon Certificate Service and get your questions answered about how you can implement this at your organization.

Internet2 intends to protect members’ routing integrity by implementing RPKI route origin validation. This session review Internet2’s plans for RPKI ROV and seeks input from members and connectors.

The meeting has been merged with the NTAC Peering & Routing WG. This long-standing open working group discusses issues related to BGP routing and peering on both the R&E and I2PX routing instances on the Internet2 backbone.

Dan Schmiedt <willys@tamu.edu> and
Tony Brock <Anthony.Brock@oregonstate.edu> are the co-chairs for this working group.

If this is your first time attending TechEX (or you just feel like it is!), join us for breakfast and conversation. We will reserve tables in the breakfast area and members of the program committee, Internet2 staff, and interested community members will be on hand to greet you, give you some “tips” on how to get the most out of the meeting, and introduce you to others in your primary area of interest. We’d like everyone who attends TechEX to have a few friendly faces in their corner!

What’s all the MS-CC buzz about? Come join the Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) for a lunch and learn session during TechEX. You can expect an engaging panel discussion that highlights perspectives and experiences from North Carolina A&T State University, a historically Black university, and Salish Kootenai College, a tribal college.

Come meet members of the MS-CC’s thriving community, and learn more about our work, the diverse community of institutions we serve, and our holistic approach to enabling IT for research on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), and other minority serving institutions (MSIs).

Presenters:

• Ana Hunsinger, Vice President, Community Engagement, Internet2
• Lawrence Williams, MS-CC Program Director 
• Al Anderson, Chief Information Officer at Salish Kootenai College and MS-CC Leadership Council Member
• Tom Jackson, Vice Chancellor for Information Technology & Chief Information Officer at North Carolina A&T State University and MS-CC Leadership Council Member

What actions can increase mutual trust, assurance, and interoperability among federation participants, Community Trust & Assurance Board inviting discussion including REFEDS Assurance, research, and other service providers needing enhanced trust & assurance for federated access.

The Cloud Learning and Skills Session (CLASS) program aims to enable cloud computing adoption on campuses both to accelerate research and to develop a futuristic workforce. This working group aims to: (1) Identify challenges for cloud adoption on campuses (2) Identify solutions to the challenges and how CLASS can catalyze changes on campuses and (3) Develop actionable and executable outcomes.

Subscribers and interested non-subscribers of the Internet2 DDoS solution with Radware are welcome to attend!

The purpose of this meeting is for NTAC Chairs along with NTAC Working Group and SIG chairs to discuss progress and plan future efforts.

IAM-HER is a community of women and their allies who work in Identity and Access Management in Higher Education and Research. The primary goals of IAM-HER are to provide a supportive community for women who work in Identity and Access Management in Higher Education and Research.

The NET+ CSTAAC, Cloud Services Technology Architecture Advisory Committee, is a standing architecture strategy group of community members chartered by Internet2’s Vice President for Trust and Identity and NET+ Cloud Services. Attendance is by invitation only.

During the pandemic, assurance requirements have continued to evolve in both international standards and NIH service provider requirements for increased assurance. This session will cover two aspects: NIH Assurance – It’s possible!: In this part of the session, the NIAID international team will present on how it met NIH’s increasing assurance expectations. The team established assurance from the initial account issuance (implementing the REFEDS Assurance Framework (RAF)) and preserved the assurance during the account’s life (implementing the REFEDS Multi-Factor Authentication Profile), even when that account reaches out to Service Providers across the federation (implementing federation assurance). As NIH’s assurance requirements are evolving, so too are international federation standards, leading to the second part of this presentation: Evolution of the REFEDS Assurance Framework. In this part of the session we will inform attendees of the latest work on the international standard RAF. Join us to share your ideas and experiences in the field of identity assurance and get prepared for the upcoming community consultation.

Speakers: Matthew Economou, Kyle Lewis, Jule Ziegler

Several initiatives are converging at the 2022 Technology Exchange to broaden the participation of underrepresented and underserved members of the research and education (R&E) community in the U.S. and globally. Join this session to learn more about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across the R&E community and how mentorship plays a role in those efforts, and help us recognize and welcome the recipients of this year’s DEI scholarships and fellowships. Lunch will be provided; please get your food and beverage from the foyer (Director’s Row H meeting room) before proceeding to the meeting room.

Ana Hunsinger, Internet2 vice president of community engagement, will open the session with a brief update on the Internet2 Inclusivity (I2I) Initiative and recognition of this year’s I2I scholarship recipients, NSRC-Internet2 fellows, and Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) attendees.

A panel discussion will follow, as participants share their experiences and knowledge related to mentorship programs, including how to create a mentorship program, find new mentors, pair mentors with mentees, and measure the success of a program. They’ll also reflect on the challenges they have faced, the impact mentors have had on their own careers, and their own experiences in a mentoring role. The session will conclude with a 15-minute networking opportunity to meet others within the community who care about DEI along with related career development efforts.

Panelists:

• Dedra Chamberlin, founder and CEO of Cirrus Identity (Moderator)
• Forough Ghahramani, associate vice president for research, innovation, and sponsored programs at NJEdge
• Khoudia Gueye, director of infrastructure and information systems at the Virtual University of Senegal
• Ryan MacTaggart, associate director for professional learning at EDUCAUSE
• Brenna Meade, senior network engineer at Indiana University

Join an ongoing discussion about IPv6 deployment, operations, tips, and tricks. Share your experiences, ask questions among experienced experts, or just sit and listen. All are welcome!

Come join the eduroam team and your fellow eduroam Admins to discuss the latest developments to the service, share best practices, and noodle on the future of the service.

This is a closed face-to-face meeting of the InCommon Technical Advisory Committee.

Join us for an informal gathering of geeks where folks will share their horror stories of the time they took down production. We’ll laugh, we’ll cry, and we’ll learn everyone makes mistakes and lives to tell the tale. Audience participation is encouraged but not required.

Speaker: Karl Newell, Internet2

Each month, COmanage hosts Open Office Hours. This is a loosely-structured, open forum for questions, discussion, and peer sharing among those using or interested in COmanage Registry and/or Match. A short conversation starter (Topic Aperitif) kicks off each session to help get the discussion started. December’s Topic Aperitif: COmanage Registry 5.0.0 (PE)

COmanage Registry is undergoing a significant update with version 5.0.0. With a substantial upgrade to the underlying development framework, CakePHP, we are taking the opportunity to review current Registry uses and adjust the code and features to better align with how the system is being used today. For this month’s “topic aperitif” we will discuss the expected changes, share some exciting functionality and interface updates, and talk about timing. We look forward to your questions, comments, and suggestions, both about this update and any other COmanage topics. This session will replace the December virtual event, so it also will be offered to online participants.

This gathering of chairs and reviewers for the 2022 Technology Exchange focuses on the process (what worked/what didn’t) and content (what we should look for in 2023). Please join your fellow community members who have participated in the review and selection process to help us improve the experience in 2023!

NOTE: Because this gathering is scheduled during the Sponsor Social time frame, this small gathering also includes heavy appetizers and an open bar.

The primary focus of the Connector/Network Member BoF is on information sharing and open discussion of issues relevant among the connectors, network members, and Internet2. If you are interested in participating or proposing a discussion topic, please contact Linda Roos (lroos@internet2.edu).

Join the team as we collaborate on ShibUI requirements that meet the needs of Higher Education! We’ll start with a streamlined demo to share the status and then open it up to a planning and working session based on what YOU want to see done. This is your time to talk about how to evolve and build on the current ShibUI foundation.

Formerly the Security Working Group, all those who are interested in network security are cordially invited to hang out and talk amongst ourselves!

In this invitation-only session, community and Industry Members along with Internet2 leadership will gather to share strategic updates and opportunities for collaboration toward the advancement of networking, cloud, and security/identity in the research and education community. The lunch will include a strategic update by Internet2 executives, lightning talks from industry members featuring relevant updates and engagement potential, and the opportunity for participants to socialize and make connections.

The Internet2 Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity (CACTI) will hold an open working meeting at Internet2 Tech Exchange, for the purposes of discussing CACTI’s work during the 2022 calendar year, and getting community feedback on that work and our intended future focus areas.

After registering for TechEX22, please fill out this form to sign up for this session.

Netguru is a longstanding in-person roundtable meeting of individuals that nominally think of themselves as campus network architects. Topics of interest are curated and then moderated and discussed in a round-table fashion. Participation is first-come, first-served and is limited to 1-2 individuals from each institution with a soft limit of 30 people in order to keep the roundtable format feasible.

The semi-annual meeting of the perfSONAR development team.

Please stop by to see a demo of the Insight Console! We have Looking Glass available for your use and will be able to talk about Routing and Virtual Networks.

Security Awareness training is a critical component of a comprehensive security program. Compliance and behavior change becomes difficult for non-technical individuals without the proper content. SANS Security Awareness offers a comprehensive solution for end users and individuals of all levels with expert-authored content. Join us for a live demonstration of several key Security Awareness products created by a trusted global network of cyber security professionals.

Cirrus Identity, Evolveum and Provision IAM are joining forces to deliver a live demonstration of using midPoint and Cirrus authentication proxy to manage licenses on target systems like Zoom. The main idea for the demo is to manage a list of users
who are authorized to have a license, but only users who will actually use the service will consume the license.

That would be achieved by a smart authentication service, which denies authentication to users who are not authorized. The
license will be assigned using just-in-time provisioning principles for all authenticated users. At the same time, a connected identity management service will monitor all assigned licenses to un-assign license using de-provisioning mechanisms for users who will lose the right to have a license.

This demo’s unique value lies in highlighting the potential for new features that can be delivered only with a combination of access management and identity management integrated with the target system.