Status and plans of the APGrid PMA Yoshio

APGrid PMA: Asia Pacific Grid PMA General Policy Management Authority in Asia Pacific Launched

Members and CAs Affiliation Name AIST / Japan Yoshio Tanaka in operation yes ASCC

Status Many members were inactive could not have motivation for active participation satisfy with

Plans Change membership General membership has no voting right Ex officio membership has voting

Summary APGrid PMA has two main objectives: be responsible as a regional PMA in

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

APGrid PMA: Asia Pacific Grid PMA General Policy Management Authority in Asia Pacific Launched on June 1 st, 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

Members and CAs Affiliation Name AIST / Japan Yoshio Tanaka in operation yes ASCC / Taiwan Eric Yen in operation none yes KISTI / Korea Jae-Hyuck Kwak in operation yes CAS / China Kai Nan CP under review in operation no IHEP / China Gonxing Sun CP under review none no BII / Singapore Kishore Sakharkar no plan in operation no (yes) NCHC / Taiwan Julian Yu-Chung Chen planning in operation yes Osaka U / Japan Susumu Date planning in operation yes SDSC / USA Mason Katz no plan none no HKU / Hong. Kong Chen Lin, Elaine no plan in operation no U of Hyd / India Arun Agarwal no plan in operation no USM / Malaysia Boon Yaik no plan in operation no planning in operation no VPAC / Australia David Abramson Production CA Experimental CA Here?

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 productionlevel 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.

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

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