2022-09-06 ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

Attendees:

  • RAMPS: Stephen Deems (v), Dave Hart

  • MATCH: Shelley Knuth (v)

  • CONECT: Tim Boerner (v), Leslie Froeschl

  • MMS: Tom Furlani (v), Joe White

  • OpenCI: John Towns (v), Shawn Strande, Ron Payne, Lavanya Podila, Lisa Kaczmarczyk

  • NSF: Tom Gulbransen (NSF)

  • Guest Speaker:

    • Alex Withers for the Cybersecurity Governance Council Charter topic

    • Cindy Wong for the EAB Charter topic

(v) indicates a voting member

Agenda/Notes

  1. Cybersecurity Governance Council Charter @Alex Withers (10 min)

    1. Charter approved by current CGC on 29 August 2022

    2. Request to add to charter:

      1. statement and criteria for policies/decisions that can be made by CGC and which are informational items need to be raised to the EC.

    3. Should ACO be a voting member? This will be discussed at the CGC meeting this week.

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

    1. 30 August 2022 EC summary (approved with one change noted and updated)

      1. Ron to send an email to all-staff to let people know where to find the EC agendas and notes.

      2. Ron also to confirm all EC agenda and notes are accessible to the public.

  3. Informational Items (10 mins)

    1. RAMPS @Stephen Deems

      1. NTR

    2. MATCH @Shelley Knuth

      1.  NTR

    3. CONECT @Tim Boerner

      1. NTR

    4. MMS @Tom Furlani

      1. NTR

    5. OpenCI @John Towns

      1. NTR

  4. Launch Status @John Towns (10 mins)

    1. Outstanding issues/concerns?

      1. Allocations:

        1. community asking for “Dave Hart page”, these are RP focused pages.

        2. Quite a few volunteers for XRAC

        3. Suggestion from @Stephen Deems concerning Organization page and what information should be included.

          1. We might be able to better highlight what our Tracks are fulfilling and who’s behind the project, rather than focusing on the PIs.

      2. Support

        1. Some issues with ticket system

        2. >70 issues on 1st day mainly dealing with accounts, volume is coming down

        3. Some user support requests are being addressed via Slack. There is an uneven response across tracks. Topic to be discussed at the Track 2 level, then brought to EC for discussion and decision on consistency.

      3. Operations

        1. Internet2 standing up a virtual routing, contingency in place and future mitigation agreed too.

      4. Metrics

        1. Delayed activation of the metrics.access-ci.org website.

        2. No issues with XDMoD.

      5. ACO

        1. Delay in redirecting XSEDE website and portal, but redirection in place.

  5. EAB Charter Review @Shawn Strande (10 min)

    1. Proposed timeline is discuss identified topics on 13 Sept. and vote to approve at 20 Sept. meeting.

    2. Google Survey setup for nomination

    3. When appropriate, John will reach out to XAB members to encourage them to nominate EAB members.

  6. ACCESS Presence at SC22 @John Towns / @Shelley Knuth (10 min)

    1. Are there any ACCESS presentations or BoFs?

    2. Dina will be asked to attend next week’s call to summarize the plan for ACCESS at SC22.

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

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Next EC Meeting: 13 September 2022