--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EGI BROADCAST TOOL : https://operations-portal.egi.eu/broadcast/send --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Publication from : Alessandro Paolini <alessandro.paolini(a)egi.eu> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to the VO that replied so far. We extend the deadline till Thu 3rd March to let other VOs provide their feedback. =================== Dear VO managers, this year an important change is going to happen to the middleware that you use daily to run your analysis, simulations, and to manage your data:  the authentication and authorisation mechanism will move from X509 personal certificates to federated identities based on tokens. This means that in order to access all of the EGI services you will need to use your academic/social account, and this account needs to be registered in EGI Check-in (see for example https://docs.egi.eu/users/check-in/signup/ ). The EGI Cloud Compute service (https://docs.egi.eu/users/cloud-compute/) already moved time ago to the usage of federated identities as authentication system, so the services we refer to are the ones historically called "grid services" such as Computing Elements and Storage Elements (using protocols like SRM, webdav/http, GridFTP, etc.). We would like to implement this change in a smooth way, and we expect to have a transition period where both X509 and federated identities tokens can be used. During this transition phase there might be delays in updating the GRID elements to the latest version compliant with tokens, not all of the middleware products will be compliant with tokens at the same time, and the same VO will have to interact with element supporting different authentication methods. In order to better plan this huge change in the usage of our Infrastructure, we would really appreciate to have your feedback about your experience with the aforementioned services: we ask you to reply to some questions with the aim to understand how this change will affect your normal workflow and to implement it in a way as much transparent to you as possible. The survey will take only a few minutes to be filled in and it is oriented to the VO managers: we would like to have one reply per VO. Of course, before replying to the survey, you can collect the relevant information from the most-active users, or in case you can also ask one of them to reply on behalf of your VO. Llnk to the survey: https://survey.egi.eu/812154?lang=en Thanks for your collaboration, EGI Operations ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- link to this broadcast : https://operations-portal.egi.eu/broadcast/archive/2900 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------