MAGIC
MAGIC - Middleware for collaborative Applications and Global vIrtual Communities
General objective
To establish a set of agreements for participating world regions to consolidate/complete middleware for a marketplace of services and real-time applications to benefi t global science communities.
Participants
- RedCLARA (Latin America) - Coordinator
- GÉANT (Europe)
- RENATA (Colombia)
- RNP (Brazil)
- SURFnet (Netherlands)
- REUNA (Chile)
- CEDIA (Ecuador)
- CUDI (Mexico)
- RENATER (France)
- GRNET (Greece)
- CESNET (Czech Republic)
- CKLN (Caribbean)
- UbuntuNet Alliance (S&E Africa)
- WACREN (W&C Africa)
- ASREN (Arab States)
- TEIN*CC (Asia-Paci c)
- CAREN NOC – NITC (Central Asia)
- NIIFI (Hungary)
- CSIR (South Africa)
Objectives
- To enable mobility and seamless access to services by:
- promoting the establishment of identity federations connected to eduGAIN,
- creating awareness of privacy and security issues, and
- increasing uptake of eduroam.
- To enable the provision of collaboration tools and services among NRENs based on NREN-run applications made available via a worldwide application market.
- To seek consensus on interoperability of real-time applications and work towards the adoption of standards such as those proposed by the Global CEO Forum.
- To foster the collaborative work of Global Science Communities by actively promoting the participation researchers in European Commission Calls, etc.