Section
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Advocacy and Communication: Relationships with Other Organisations
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Action
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Represent CAUL on the CAUDIT PKI Project Steering Committee
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Responsibility
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Maxine Brodie
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Time-line
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January-June 2005 (Stage 1)
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Activity since last report
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CAUDIT PKI Project Steering Committee Meeting met in Brisbane on 16 May (I was unable to attend because of the Management Frontiers US Trip)
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Achievements since last report
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Substantial work was done for this meeting on the project plan for a pilot PKI implementation.
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Publicity, reports, publications since last report
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N/A
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Plan for forthcoming activity
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The CAUDIT PKI project has now been replaced by a newly funded ARIIC MERRI project:
E – Security Framework for Research
Lead Institution – University of Queensland Funding $649,000
Scope
Secure access and the authentication and authorisation of researchers, who access services and infrastructure across global networks, are fundamental building blocks for e-research. This project seeks to establish an E-Security framework which will integrate different two types of security systems, PKI and Shibboleth, to foster collaboration and enable the secure sharing of resources and research infrastructure within Australia and with international partners. The project will leverage off existing work in both areas, build on the advantages or these different systems and create a platform to enable the secure sharing of resources for and research infrastructure.
Partners: Macquarie University, Council of Australian Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT), Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) and AARNet Pty Ltd
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CAUL budget implications
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Nil
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Recommendations to CAUL
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Pilot Project complete. CAUL Executive to confirm CAUL representative on this project Steering Committee if required by Lead Institution.
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