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<div>Hi Lukas,</div>
<div>since nobody else answered yet, I will give it a shot.</div>
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<div>The GCT is the fruit of an ad-hoc collaboration between several parties</div>
<div>that have a continued need for Globus middleware in the next few years:</div>
<div>OSG, EGI, NorduGrid, CERN and maybe others still.</div>
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<div>There is no formal agreement between any of these parties,</div>
<div>but you can be fairly confident we will keep this going for a few years,</div>
<div>while alternative solutions are being developed and integrated steadily</div>
<div>in the activities of each stakeholder. For example, using XRootD and/or</div>
<div>HTTP for file transfers, instead of GridFTP. That is looking good already,</div>
<div>but we may still need a few years to be able to stop using the latter.</div>
<div>There also is GSI: new AuthN/AuthZ paradigms are being investigated,</div>
<div>but we may need to rely on X509 + GSI in various places even longer...<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> 26 September 2018 10:45<br>
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<p>Hi everyone,</p>
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<p>I have two questions:</p>
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<li><font size="3">How long are you going to provide (</font>security)<font size="3"> updates?</font><br>
</li><li>How is GCT funded?</li></ol>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Lukas </p>
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Lukas Koschmieder<br>
Steel Institute IEHK<br>
RWTH Aachen University<br>
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52072 Aachen <br>
Germany<br>
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Tel: +49 (0)241 80 95823<br>
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lukas.koschmieder@iehk.rwth-aachen.de<br>
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