Salsa

Charter | Members | Working Groups | Security Workshops | Minutes

Salsa is an oversight group consisting of technical representatives from the higher education community who will advise on leading edge technology issues, provide prioritization, and set directions in the security space. Salsa is affiliated with the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Higher Education Information Security Council (formerly the Security Task Force), but is independent of both organizations. Salsa will be future-oriented and state-of-the-art in nature, focusing on high performance and advanced networks.

Salsa will form working groups as needed to explore specific issues (e.g., network authentication). The working groups will be open to broad membership from the higher education and research communities, but overall size may be restricted in order to facilitate group operations.

As of the meeting held March 11, 2004, the following text has been agreed upon as the Final Draft of the Salsa Charter:

Internet2 is convening a group of leading network security architects from the research and education community to address the growing need for a consistent and architectural approach to network security that balances the issues of performance, deployability, support and protection. Appropriate topics for Salsa will be driven by an extant or potential network-based approach or technology designed to affect infrastructure security.

Salsa will form working groups to address specific topics and will act as a focal point for coordinating these activities. These groups will be charged with specific tasks and will internally set milestones/deadlines and identify deliverables. Participation in working groups will be open, but will focus on participation from the research and education community in order to maintain Salsa's primary orientation.

• Chris Misra (Chair) - University of Massachusetts
• Terry Gray - University of Washington
• Deke Kassabian - University of Pennsylvania
• Doug Pearson - Indiana University
• Jim Pepin - Clemson University
• Mark Poepping - Carnegie Mellon University
• James Sankar (Australian liaison) - AARNet
• Jeff Schiller - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Joe St. Sauver - University of Oregon
• Jack Suess - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Michael Van Norman - UCLA

Ex Officio Members

• Dale Finkelson, Internet2
• Ken Klingenstein - Internet2
• Rodney Petersen - EDUCAUSE
• Steve Olshansky - Internet2 Middleware and Security Flywheel
  
  

• DNSSEC (SIG)
• Salsa-CSI2 (Computer Security Incidents) Working Group
• Salsa-DR (Disaster Planning & Recovery) Working Group

• 2004 Summer Salsa Security Workshop, 21-22 July 2004
• Topics in Advanced Network Management: Results from a workshop of R&E network architects, November 2005
  With thanks and appreciation to the attendees, and special thanks to: Nate Klingenstein, Internet2; Kevin Miller, Duke University; Terry Gray, University of Washington; and Ken Klingenstein, Internet2