[ESG-CET] ESG Requirements Justifications and Security Risks

[Dean N. Williams]

Dear Rachana, Luca, Bob, Ann, Gavin, Alex, Roland, Peter, et al.,

	We (which includes all of you) are putting together a list of  
requirements, justifications, and security risks for the modeling  
groups that want to install a Data Node and/or a Gateway. Please see  
the following site: http://cmip.llnl.gov/cmip5/data_node.html?submenuheader=2 
.

	The website is far from complete, we need additional information -  
particularly security risks and implications for installing the  
various software components. Using an example given from Alex, GridFTP  
requires the ports, 2811 and 50000 - 51000. Why so many and what are  
the ports used for? What is the description of the GridFTP Server -  
Grid-enabled FTP server - what does this really mean? What is the  
security risks for this component? As you can see, someone not savvy  
about the components will have lots of questions. I've attached a  
diagram (to be included in the document) showing the Data Node  
components, we need to explain them in detail for anyone interested in  
installing it. I would hope that we can do the same for the Gateway  
and we will need to explain better, the relationship between the Data  
Nodes and the Gateway and there connection requirements,  
justifications and security.

	We should try to complete this document as soon as possible. Perhaps  
you can send me your input by Jan. 14th so that we can have this  
information ready for the February candidate release.

Thanks and best regards,
	Dean



	
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