TeraGrid Privacy Policy:What is it and why are we doing it…

Von Welch

TeraGrid Quarterly Meeting

March 6, 2008

Where is it and where did it come from? http://www.teragridforum.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Privacy_Policy

Started by Dane back in April of 2007 Presented at April 17, 2007 RPF meeting

Picked up by NCSA, revamped and presented at Architecture meetings November 29, 2007 and December 13, 2007

Core2 Working Group adopted Comments from PSC, TACC, SDSC

Reviewed by Tom Baron, InCommon Technical Advisory Committee member.

Why does it exist?

Requirement for TeraGrid to join InCommon Federation as a Service Provider. http://www.incommonfederation.org/

Simply put, this is the first step to allow users at campuses to use Shibboleth to authenticate to TeraGrid web servers. E.g. the TeraGrid User Portal.

What is (and isn’t) the Privacy Policy?

Walks the fine line of covering just TeraGrid GIG services.

Does not cover what RP sites do.

Captures what we do today – does not try to define anything new.

Does not cover what Science Gateways (and other “TeraGrid partners”) do.

More specifically…

Covers allocations process Application Award information Usage

Information provided to TG by Science Gateways and RP sites.

Next Steps…

Once it is officially sanctioned by TG, InCommon membership for TG, with U. Chicago as legal entity, can proceed.