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AuthX News 20050315

USC at SURAgrid AuthN/AuthZ Meeting in Atlanta, GA

Photo of SURAgrid participants courtesy of Shelley Henderson The AuthX group of USC ISD participated in a meeting of SURAgrid principals in Atlanta, GA, to discuss lessons learned and future effort in the area of online authentication and authorization, looking back at experience gained in the NMI Testbed and forward to proposed handling of authN/authZ issues in the now-forming SURAgrid, a follow-on to the NMI Testbed that will build a persistent general-purpose grid from resources donated by members and investigate questions of cooperative security, account administration, local control of resources in a grid environment, and more.

Those participating (from left to right in the picture): Mary Fran Yafchak, SURA; Art Vandenberg, GSU; Jim Jokl, UVA; Jerry Perez, TTU; Shelley Henderson, USC (standing); John-Paul Robinson, UAB; Shawn McKee, UMich; Kate Barzee, SURA (not shown).