Task Force for meeting LCG User Registration
and VO management requirements

Its creation was mandated after the March 8th 2004 GDB.

Basic goals:

1. Meet the robust registration process as now proposed in the LCG User Registration and VO Membership Management Requirements document.
2. Investigate the use of existing sources of information.
3. Achieve all possible compatibility between the requirements and existing proposed solutions.
   

Members:
Vincenzo Ciaschini & Valerio Venturi (voms-core developers)
Maria Dimou (LCG Registrar and DTeam VO manager),
Joni Hahkala (VOMS admin. development Leader),
David Kelsey (LCG Security Group Leader),
Tanya Levshina & John Weigand (VOMRS developers),
Karoly Lorentey (voms-admin developer)
Ian Neilson (TF coordinator, LCG Security Officer).

Actions:

1. Spoke with the ORGDB experts i.e. the CERN HR database administrators, the PIE interface technical managers, the Head of the Users' Office (UO).
2. Contacted the LHC Experiments' Computing Coordinators via a Questionnaire, answered by the experiments' secretariats, in order for us to understand the current User Registration procedures in ORGDB.
3. Evaluated the usability of ORGDB as an information source for LCG membership data.
4. Started investigating ways to interface existing tools' (VOMS and VOMRS) with ORGDB.
5. Prepared the GDB 13 July 2004 proposal.
6. Work now on the ORGDB link with VOMS/VOMRS. Progress is monitored via regular checkpoint meetings.

Maria Dimou, IT/GD, Grid Infrastructure Services