The 6th SIG-CISS meeting has been organized and first informal meet up after a long break, mostly due to the pandemics.

The event gathered together the SIC-CISS community and discussed how to resume the activities and re-build the community after the long break.

An opening, introductory presentation has been shown by the SIG chair, to wrap up the goals and current stand of the activities, as well as to describe the evolving landscape around the NRENs Cloud community. The presentation has reminded about the goals and context for the SIG, described the latetst development in the Cloud landscape, and made proposal for the work to be implemented in future:

• Collaborate with the GN4-3 Community Cloud task to 
• prototype the operation of services  federated through Community Clouds infrastructures
• define a common AAI framework for user registration, authentication authorization on Cloud - in compliance with the AARC BPA
• implement specific applications workflows (of interest for our community) on the Geant Cloud Flow to showcase and promote adoption
• create a Community Cloud toolkit, enclosing a high level architectural blueprint, ensuring interoperability among different community cloud infrastructures
• Identify interesting Proof of Concepts on new service/tools/technologies of potential interest for the community
• E.g.   IRODS,  Persistent Identifiers and Storage Services
• Start a gap analysis on the missing or critical bits in the provisioning of Cloud services via Community Clouds and define a strategy to overcome current issues
• e.g.  A full fledged, operational accounting platform
• e.g. A detailed analysis of the policy, legal, security issues related to running Community Cloud services [  does it already exist anywhere ?]

The presentation was followed by Mentimeter session to ask the audience about their point of view on possible coordinated Cloud activities within the SIG.

The results of the mentimeter session are available here: