Status and plans of the APGrid PMA

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Status and plans of the APGrid PMA

• Yoshio Tanaka (yoshio.tanaka_at_aist.go.jp)
• Grid Technology Research Center,
• AIST, Japan

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APGrid PMA Asia Pacific Grid PMA

• General Policy Management Authority in Asia
  Pacific
• Launched on June 1st, 2004
• Defines minimum CA requirements
• APGrid PMA approved that we accept two levels of
  CA
• Experimental-level CA
• Alternative of the Globus CA
• Can be trusted within A-P communities
• Production-level CA
• Strict management is necessary
• Expected to be trusted by international
  communities

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Members and CAs
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Status

• Many members were inactive
• could not have motivation for active
  participation
• satisfy with using experimental CA (simple CA)
• non experts of PKI/Security and have less
  interests for the security
• Situation is going to be changed
• Some CAs have a plan for launching a
  production-level CA
• IHEP / China, CAS / China, NCHC / Taiwan, VPAC /
  Australia
• U. of Tsukuba is involved in Lattice QC Grid
  project and it expects NAREGI CA to be trusted by
  European and American CAs
• APGrid PMA should be able to help this.

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Plans

• Change membership
• General membership
• has no voting right
• Ex officio membership
• has voting right
• has obligation for commitment
• representatives of production-level CAs
• representatives of experimental-level CAs in
  request basis
• Invite representatives of relying parties to the
  APGrid PMA
• Change accreditation procedure
• Now voting using emails
• Plan have regular face-to-face meeting / VTC
  (regular meeting and request-basis)
• Define procedures for re-certify CAs
• peer-audit or PMA (chair) will audit all CAs
• Should establish formal relationship with the
  other PMAs
• ASCC, IHEP should belong to only APGrid PMA

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Summary

• APGrid PMA has two main objectives
• be responsible as a regional PMA in Asia Pacific
• define minimum CA requirements
• accredit and audit CAs
• support CAs in Asia Pacific
• help / give advice to launch CAs
• inform the current status and future direction
  about our efforts (IGF)
• It was less active, but the situation is going to
  be improved.
• Re-organize the PMA
• Changed the accreditation procedure
• Will have face-to-face meeting
• Will do audit