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Therefore, we organized a meeting with representatives of workpackage 3,which is responsible for the monitoring service, in the first half of the year andagreed on the form of our collaboration. Within this model, the R-GMA infrastructureshould ensure availability of the information on event states, includinga so-called notification service, thus significantly lowering the utilization ofthe logging database itself.Unfortunately, the delay in conversion to version 2.0 negatively influenced theimplementation of needed R-GMA components as well. The components donot have a fully functional form yet. Therefore, we currently have only a datagenerator for R-GMA available and are able to send task state information to thisinfrastructure. The R-GMA infrastructure is, however, not yet able to store thesedata reliably and send them to users who are interested in them – the serviceretains its non-guaranteed character for now. Besides, the R-GMA infrastructuredata security issue has not been satisfactorily resolved yet. The communicationvia secured SSL channels affects the overall performance too negatively.11.2 SecurityIn the first half of 2002, we launched a service for extending the validity ofcertificates with the myProxy server. Modifications performed in the myProxyserver have been included in the new official distribution.During the preparation of version 2.0, we unified approaches used within WP1to ensure the secure communication of remote components and created a newlibrary that includes functions for handling certificates as well.11.3 Project ContinuationIn 2002, the 6 th EU Framework Program was announced. Together with otherDataGrid project co-researchers, we submitted what is known as an Express ofInterest for the pan-European Grid infrastructure. Since autumn, we have beenintensively participating in preparation of a consortium that is going to submitthe project draft already upon the first announcement from 17 December 2002.At the end of the year, representatives of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria,and the Czech Republic agreed on creation of the Central-European Grid Consortium,which will have its first constituent meeting at the beginning of January2003. The aim behind the creation of this consortium is not only to gain astronger position within the pan-European consortium, but also to identify andsubsequently resolve common problems, which often differ from those that arehandled by constituent EU countries. These issues mainly include the inten-High-speed National Research Network and its New Applications 2002143