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Status and plans of the APGrid PMA

Discover the updated status and upcoming plans of the Asia Pacific Grid PMA for ensuring grid security with accredited CAs. Learn about membership changes, accreditation procedures, and the strategic objectives of the PMA in Asia Pacific.

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Status and plans of the APGrid PMA

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  1. Status and plans of the APGrid PMA Yoshio Tanaka (yoshio.tanaka@aist.go.jp) Grid Technology Research Center, AIST, Japan

  2. 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

  3. Members and CAs

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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

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