e-IRG recommendations

All recommendations [ pdf e-IRG recommendations overview] from 2003-2011 in a single file.

e-IRG recommendations and decisions (2011)

pdf e-IRG Recommendations 2011

Recommendation 1/7 - e-Infrastructure governance: From management and international aspects, to legal and financial issues
Recommendation 2/7 - Future of research networking
Recommendation 3/7 - Authentication, authorisation and accounting
Recommendation 4/7 - Energy and Green IT
Recommendation 5/7 - Exascale computing and related software
Recommendation 6/7 - e-Infrastructure services
Recommendation 7/7 - Data infrastructures

e-IRG recommendations from the Blue Paper 2010

pdf e-IRG Blue Paper

Recommendation 1/7 - Networking
Recommendation 2/7 - Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting
Recommendation 3/7 - Grid, Cloud and Virtualisation
Recommendation 4/7 - High Performance Computing
Recommendation 5/7 - Remote Access and Remote Instrumentation
Recommendation 6/7 - Data infrastructures and persistent storage
Recommendation 7/7 - Virtual Research Communities and collaboration

e-IRG recommendations from the Roadmap 2010

pdf e-IRG roadmap 2010

Recommendation 1/9 - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Recommendation 2/9 - Commodity computing
Recommendation 3/9 - Standards and interoperability
Recommendation 4/9 - High Performance Computing
Recommendation 5/9 - Sustainable data management infrastructure
Recommendation 6/9 - Networking
Recommendation 7/9 - Commercial uptake
Recommendation 8/9 - New user communities
Recommendation 9/9 - International collaboration

e-IRG recommendations and decisions (Czech Presidency, 2009)

pdf e-IRG recommendations 2009

Recommendation 1/7 - Global Collaboration
Recommendation 2/7 - Education and Training in the Use of e-Infrastructure
Recommendation 3/7 - Grid and Cloud Computing
Recommendation 4/7 - Security: A "Holistic" Approach
Recommendation 5/7 - Service-centric e-Infrastructures through virtualisation
Recommendation 6/7 - Remote Instrumentation
Recommendation 7/7 - Sustainability of the computing-related e-Infrastructure

Recommendations from the e-IRG Education and training task force report 2008

pdf e-IRG Education and training task force report

Recommendation 1/6 - Recommendations as to the level of investment necessary in Member States in order to provide education in the use of e-Infrastructure.
Recommendation 2/6 - Recommendations to align the development of distributed-computation knowledge and skills.
Recommendation 3/6 - Recommendations as to the harmonisation of education in the use of e-Infrastructure.
Recommendation 4/6 - Propose standards for student and teacher identification that would enable access to educational grid facilities and authorization/management of the resources used.
Recommendation 5/6 - Propose standards for sharing training material and t-Infrastructure between institutions.
Recommendation 6/6 - Establish a system for agreeing standards that accredit workers who design, build, operate and support e-Infrastructure so that qualifications are recognised across the ERA.

e-IRG recommendations and decisions (Finnish Presidency, 2006)

pdf e-IRG recommendations & decisions, Finnish Presidency

Recommendation 1/6 - Authentication and Authorisation (AA)
Recommendation 2/6 - Usage policies
Recommendation 3/6 - Education and Training
Recommendation 4/6 - Grid economy - Allocation and accounting
Recommendation 5/6 - HPC in Europe Task Force (HET)
Recommendation 6/6 - Supercomputing

Recommendations from the e-IRG Task Force on Sustainable e-Infrastructures 2006

pdf e-IRG Task Force on Sustainable e-Infrastructures

Recommendation 1/5 - Governments and the Commission should develop policies and mechanisms to encourage increased investment in a more coherent and interoperable way across Europe
Recommendation 2/5 - The existing e-Infrastructure projects must be superseded by integrated sustainable services at national and European levels
Recommendation 3/5 - e-Infrastructures must be application-neutral and open to all user communities and resource providers. National funding agencies should be encouraged to fund multi-disciplinary and inclusive infrastructures rather than disciplinary-specific alternatives
Recommendation 4/5 - e-Infrastructures must inter-operate and adopt international standard services and protocols in order to qualify for funding
Recommendation 5/5 - The Commission should, within the seventh Framework Programme, develop a pan-European e-Infrastructure which explicitly encourages the further integration of national e- Infrastructure initiatives

e-IRG recommendations and decisions (Luxembourg Presidency, 2005)

pdf e-IRG White Paper, Luxembourg, 2005

Recommendation 1/9 - Towards National Grid Initiatives
Recommendation 2/9 - Authentication, Authorization, Accounting policies
Recommendation 3/9 - Legal issues in e-Infrastructures
Recommendation 4/9 - Network developments & grid requirements
Recommendation 5/9 - User Support policies
Recommendation 6/9 - Towards a European Federated Middleware Institute
Recommendation 6/9 - Usage policies
Recommendation 8/9 - Storage and data service
Recommendation 9/9 -Grid and Industry in the context of the European Research Programmes

e-IRG recommendations and decisions (Dutch Presidency, 2005)

pdf e-IRG White Paper, Den Haag, 2004

Recommendation 1/5 - Authorization
Recommendation 2/5 - Usage Policy
Recommendation 3/5 - A forum dedicated to the coordination and exchange of technology and policy for disciplinary Grids
Recommendation 4/5 - Network requirements
Recommendation 5/5 - European infrastructures

e-IRG recommendations and decisions (Irish Presidency, 2004)

pdf e-IRG White Paper, Dublin, 2004

Recommendation 1/2 - Authentication policy development
Recommendation 2/2 - Authorization policy development

e-IRG recommendations and decisions (Greek Presidency, 2004)

pdf e-IRG Workshop report, Athens 2004

Recommendation 1/18 - The European Research Area should clearly be seen to embrace Innovation – articulated in the context of this meeting through the name European Research and Innovation Area (ERIA)
Recommendation 2/18 - The strong level of interest in the meeting indicates how e-Infrastructures are vital for the attainment of the vision of eEurope and ERA.
Recommendation 3/18 - It is clear that many countries are joining together into regions and this was presented as a powerful tool for cooperation. An EU-wide infrastructure could grow from these regions.
Recommendation 4/18 - e-Infrastructures will only succeed if we solve end-to-end issues at the technical, infrastructural, methodological and social/human levels.
Recommendation 5/18 - GEANT is a major achievement and may show the way forward in terms of building production Grids and a real eInfrastructure throughout Europe.
Recommendation 6/18 - Solving the challenges of authorisation, authentication and accounting are key challenges for all Grid projects – this is a major hurdle in the context of building an e-Infrastructure for Europe.
Recommendation 7/18 - The trust model has to be developed further in order to share not just bandwidth but also computing resources. Grids must take the lead in helping with this process.
Recommendation 8/18 - The next steps for the Grid must be to move to reliable, resilient, and robust production quality middleware.
Recommendation 9/18 - We should continue to focus on Open Standards and avoid any vendor lock-in.
Recommendation 10/18 - The idea of an Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute for Europe was broadly supported - the rationale behind this being to create the next generation of production quality software from the developments that have taken place to date.
Recommendation 11/18 - Key to the general uptake of Grids and the creation of a real e-Infrastructure for Europe will be the transition from e-Science -> e-Business -> e-Society
Recommendation 12/18 - We must identify the next generation of applications – the so called “killer apps” – and improve our promotion of the benefits that e-Infrastructures will bring to their user communities.
Recommendation 13/18 - To build e-Infrastructures we need to focus on middleware interoperability and the accompanying policy decisions required to make our software and operating paradigms interoperable in a global context.
Recommendation 14/18 - Policy issues – particularly in a local context need to be addressed. Only by addressing the intricacies of local policy issues will be able to make local resources available in Grids.
Recommendation 15/18 - We will build e-Infrastructures by focusing on policy issues related to resource sharing in the context of the European Research Area. Such discussions must take place at an intergovernmental level.
Recommendation 16/18 - The overall recommendation from this meeting is that an e-Infrastructures Reflection Group, built from National Programme representatives, should be established and perhaps advise the Governmental representatives who sit in existing committees.
Recommendation 17/18 - The e-Infrastructures Reflection Group should consider and communicate clear messages on e-Infrastructure Policy issues to both the European Commission and existing e-Infrastructure projects on policy matters
Recommendation 18/18 - A troika of the current presidency of the EU (Greek) and the two following ones (Italy and Ireland) should discuss further what needs to be achieved with regard to moving this debate forward.