ITrust workshop Glasgow 2-4 Sep 2002

bullet1 Breakout session - Tuesday

bullet2 Theo - Building trust on the grid

Grid:  Infrastructure that logically couples distributed resources

Generalize to virtual organization

Formation-use-disolve cycle, compare with web services:

- Web servicves:  heavyweight setup, lightweight processes

- Grid: lightweight setup, heavyweight processes (possible 1/setup)



bullet3 Standards

XML

WSDL

WS-Policy

WSFL/XLANG

...

SOAP

WS-security

WS-Polict + WS-Trust + WS-Privacy (planned)

WS-Secure-conversation + WS-Federation + WS-Authorization


bullet3 WS vs Grid

Discovery of persistent services

...

Transient service instance creation

Dynamic service instance creation

Lifelong management

Standards based on WS - OSGA reference architecture

Extensible


bullet3 Question   Why?

PELLUCID

SWAD-Europe

GRASP

CORAS


iTrust WG ... LeGE-WG


bullet3 Trust defn

Ternary relation A trusts B for service X

Measurable (or quantifiable) belief of A that B behaves dependably for specified peiod P within specified context C in relation to service X.

(isn't that a 5+-way relation)

But how to measure trust?

(Grid requirement here)

...

Trust inclinations...

Trust intentons... (c.f. philosophical discussion)

From the floor:  only thing that matters is the decision that is made

...: measurable vs quantifiable debate


bullet3 List of trust mgmt issues

Resource brokerage

Publish, u[pdate, exchange policies

... more (See slide)


bullet3 Components

Analysis

Logic

Management

Modelling

...

See slide