e-Infrastructures Roadmap - Internet Society Nederland

e-Infrastructures RoadmapGÉANTGLIFThe pan-European research network, currently in its secondincarnation, GÉANT2.Global Lambda Integrated Facility. An international virtualorganization that promotes the paradigm of lambda networking.www.geant2.netwww.glif.isOECDOGFOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, aninternational organisation that provides collaboration on policyissues.Open Grid Forum, the result of a merger between the Global GridForum and the Enterprise Grid Alliance.www.oecd.orgwww.ogf.orgGLORIADGlobal Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development.www.gloriad.orgOMEGAOpen Middleware Enabling Grid Applications.IANAIASPEIInternet Assigned Numbers Authority. IANA controls numbers forprotocols, the Country Code Top Level Domains and maintains theIP Address allotments.International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’sInterior.www.iana.orgwww.iaspei.orgOMIIOpen GroupOpen Middleware Infrastructure Institute, a repository ofinteroperable and open-source Grid middleware established withinthe UK e-Science Programme.The Open Group is an industry consortium to set vendor- andtechnology-neutral open standards for computing infrastructure.www.omii.ac.ukwww.opengroup.orgICTSBIDABCICT Standards Board, a European coordination plagform forspecification activities in the field of Information andCommunications Technologies (ICT) initiated by the threerecognized European standards organizations CEN, CENELECand ETSI.Interoperable Delivery of European eGovernment Services topublic Administrations, Businesses and Citizens, an EU programmeaimed at improving efficiency and collaboration betweenEuropean public administrations.www.ictsb.orgeuropa.eu.int/idabcRDFRFIDRISEERENSMPResource Description Framework, a semantic technology for metadata.Radio Frequency Identification, a tagging method based onremotely readable electromagnetic devices.Research Infrastructures.South-East European Research and Education Networking project.Symmetric multiprocessing, the use of multiple CPUs.www.w3.org/RDFwww.seeren.orgIEEEIETFIPInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a globalprofessional engineering association responsible for manyelectrotechnical standards.Internet Engineering Task Force, the standardisation body thatestablishes the internet standards.Internet Protocol.www.ieee.orgwww.ietf.orgTERENA/TACARURITrans-European Research and Education NetworkingAssociation is an association of organisations that are involved withthe provision and use of computer network infrastructure andservices for research and education in Europe.Uniform Resource Identifiers, a way to assign a unique address toan object in an information space.www.terena.nlwww.w3.org/AddressingIPv6ITULANInternet Protocol version 6, the latest version of the protocol thatruns the internet.International Telecommunications Union, an internationalorganization established to standardise and regulate internationalradio and telecommunications.Local Area Network, a small scale computer network.www3.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2460.txtwww.itu.intVL-e Virtual Laboratory for e-Science, a project building e-Science tools. www.vl-e.nlVoIPW3CVoice over IP, the ability to have audio conversations over anIP network.World Wide Web Consortium, an international consortiumdeveloping the standards for the World Wide Web.www.w3.orgLOFARLOw Frequency ARray for radio astronomy, a large sensor gridbased in The Netherlands.www.lofar.orgWANWide Area Network, a computer network covering a widegeographic area.NRENNRENPCNational Research & Educational Network, the national entityresponsible for providing network access and services to theresearch and education community.Policy Committee within GEANT2 with appointedrepresentatives from each partner in the project.www.geant2.netWS-IWeb Services Interoperability Organization, an industry effortthat promotes Web Services Interoperability.www.ws-i.orgNUMANon-Uniform Memory Access.OASISOrganization for the Advancement of Structured InformationStandards, a global consortium that develops and supportsconvergence and adoption of e-business and web service standards.www.oasis-open.org54 55