OGF25 Schedule
OGF25/EGEE User Forum
March 2-6, 2009
Catania, Italy

Friday, March 6
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Firewall Virtualization for Grid Applications - WG (90 mins)
Ralph Niederberger, Inder Monga
(FVGA-WG)  Group Discussion

This session will provide a short introduction into the dynamic configuration of firewalls for grid applications. Furthermore we will introduce and discuss a draft proposal for a protocol allowing dynamic opening of firewalls, its prerequisites and possible extensions.
The Firewall Issues research group (fi-rg) has documented the use cases and classified the issues that Grid applications experience when trying to traverse and/or control data transport policy enforcement devices (GFD.83) and has published a document that analyzes and categorizes new firewall protocols, architectures and on-demand frameworks currently available (GFD.142).

The Firewall Virtualization for Grid Applications - Working Group will leverage the application requirements from the FI-RG to standardize a set of service definitions for a virtualized control interface into firewalls and other midboxes allowing the grid applications to securely and dynamically request application/workflow-specific services from those devices, for the duration of the service.

This session will provide a short introduction into the work proposed in FVGA, a status update on current work, group discussions on protocol proposals and on further work to reach the goals defined.
Agenda:
1.) Introduction and status of FVGA-WG - Ralph Niederberger
2.) HPN SSH/SCP NONE Cipher Switching - Chris Rapier (PSC)
3.) FiTP - A protocol draft for dynamic opening of Firewalls - Ralph Niederberger (FZJ)
4.) Token Based Firewall Support for Firewalls - A proposal for an extensions of the FiTP protocol draft - Mihai Cristea (UvA)
5.) Group discussions

Location: Bernini
 
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