[Gt-eos] Support and funding

[Koschmieder, Lukas Michael]

Hi,

It's a relieve to hear that GCT will be around for a few years and is supported by many organizations. I can confirm that here at RWTH Aachen University there are multiple institutes that rely on MyProxy and Globus Toolkit for X.509 authentication with HTCondor and XRootD. We're not using GridFTP though.

Best,
Lukas


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Lukas Koschmieder
Steel Institute IEHK
RWTH Aachen University
Intzestraße 1
52072 Aachen
Germany

Tel: +49 (0)241 80 95823
Fax: +49 (0)241 80 92253
lukas.koschmieder at iehk.rwth-aachen.de



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From: Maarten Litmaath <Maarten.Litmaath at cern.ch>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2018 10:18:54 PM
To: Koschmieder, Lukas Michael
Cc: End of Support of Globus Toolkit
Subject: RE: Support and funding

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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From: Gt-eos [gt-eos-bounces at mailman.egi.eu] on behalf of Koschmieder, Lukas Michael [Lukas.Koschmieder at rwth-aachen.de]
Sent: 26 September 2018 10:45
To: gt-eos at mailman.egi.eu
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
Steel Institute IEHK
RWTH Aachen University
Intzestraße 1
52072 Aachen
Germany

Tel: +49 (0)241 80 95823
Fax: +49 (0)241 80 92253
lukas.koschmieder at iehk.rwth-aachen.de
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