[Gt-eos] Support and funding

[Maarten Litmaath]

Hi Lukas,
since nobody else answered yet, I will give it a shot.

The GCT is the fruit of an ad-hoc collaboration between several parties
that have a continued need for Globus middleware in the next few years:
OSG, EGI, NorduGrid, CERN and maybe others still.

There is no formal agreement between any of these parties,
but you can be fairly confident we will keep this going for a few years,
while alternative solutions are being developed and integrated steadily
in the activities of each stakeholder.  For example, using XRootD and/or
HTTP for file transfers, instead of GridFTP.  That is looking good already,
but we may still need a few years to be able to stop using the latter.
There also is GSI: new AuthN/AuthZ paradigms are being investigated,
but we may need to rely on X509 + GSI in various places even longer...

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Sent: 26 September 2018 10:45
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Subject: [Gt-eos] Support and funding


Hi everyone,


I have two questions:


  1.  How long are you going to provide (security) updates?
  2.  How is GCT funded?


Cheers,

Lukas


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Lukas Koschmieder
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