2022-08-16 ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

Attendees:

(v) indicates a voting member

Agenda/Notes

1. Approval of summaries from prior EC meetings @John Towns (5 min)

   1. 09 August 2022 Interim EC summary (approved)

2. Informational Items (10 mins)

   1. RAMPS @Stephen Deems

      1. Production URLs for APIs have been sent out. Tracks are testing.

      2. Allocations process testing to begin this afternoon.

   2. MATCH @Shelley Knuth

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   3. CONECT @Leslie Froeschl

      1. Cybersecurity Governance Council has started meeting and reviewing security policies. Policies have been sorted into tiers based on level of priority. Highest priority policies will be voted on for approval prior to Sept 1. Less critical policies may not be approved until after Sept. 1, but the XSEDE baseline docs will be referred to in the interim period.

         1. Questions about track representation and opportunity to participate as a non-voting member (Track 2). Leslie to get feedback from Alex Withers regarding track representation and passive members. Per Alex, tracks 1-4 are represented. Invitation for ACO to participate resent to John Towns. There are plans to include non-voting members in the council. More details to come from Alex.

      2. Ticket system testing starts this week.

      3. Add any content that you wish to share with RPs to the collection doc ASAP today. Communications Points for ACCESS Resource Providers

   4. MMS @Tom Furlani

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   5. OpenCI @John Towns

      1. Atlassian Confluence and Jira issues have been resolved no further service interruptions are expected.

      2. Working with Google to get ACCESS Google Workspace active this week.

3. 1 Sept. 2022 Critical Path @John Towns (10 mins)

   1. Document reviewed and statused by tracks

   2. Request to Atlassian for domain name change in Confluence to access-ci has been submitted. Track 2 needs that change in place to complete launch work. Ron Payne following up with Atlassian.

4. EC charter vote @John Towns (10 min)

   1. Changes reviewed by Interim EC

   2. EC Charter approved by a unanimous vote and will be posted on the wiki.

   3. Ron to follow-up with the PIs to define the updated EC participants, and will send out an updated meeting notice.

5. Monkeypox Research @Tom Gulbransen (10 min)

   1. CISE/OAC is drafting a DCL to promote readiness of ACCESS to serve prospective monkeypox researchers.  Currently there are simply a few sentences highlighting the ability to make urgent allocation requests and user support services to match researchers with CIP. Preliminary site URLs are embedded. The DCL will likely be released soon, i.e. pre-1sep, which ironically aligns with the rare blackout interval for allocations. So be it – I’m told there have not yet been many inquiries from monkeypox researchers. We’ll see if a consortium becomes warranted. For now let’s ensure we talk through potential use cases and spawn a workgroup if needed.

   2. The current draft DCL references amp.ci as a reference. It is unclear if this will stay in the DCL. Tom to let all groups know as soon as more information is made available.

6. XSEDE Website @John Towns (10 min)

   1. XSEDE website is planned to be moved behind a VPN as of 1 September, due to license expiration.

   2. Ron to follow-up with Maytal to request an export of the website to reference offline/outside liferay.

   3. xsede.org will have a redirect to access-ci.org by NCSA.

7. Time permitting: EC Backlog Review: Update priority/items for next EC meeting @John Towns

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Next EC Meeting: 23 August 2022