GGF7 Portals Workshop Summary


[attachment=16069]


Introduction

The goal of this workshop is to articulate a community standard architecture for Grid Portals. This portal architecture would allow portal application developers to build specialized application components (portlets) that could be easily installed in any compliant portal server and easily configured by users to operate in their environment. This architecture should provide a standard way for the application portlets to share information and important user specific context data such as proxy certificates.

Workshop Outcome
The result of this workshop should be a draft for a GGF “community practice document” entitled “Grid Portal Architecture”. The first part of the workshop will be technical presentations followed by a working discussion outlining the proposed document.


Security Considerations
Security is of fundamental importance to GCE portals and we will continue to observe the progress of the GGF OGSI security working group.


Intellectual Property Statement

The GGF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any intellectual property or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; neither does it represent that it has made any effort to identify any such rights. Copies of claims of rights made available for publication and any assurances of licenses to be made available, or the result of an attempt made to obtain a general license or permission for the use of such proprietary rights by implementers or users of this specification can be obtained from the GGF Secretariat.