Egi eu and egi-inspire memorandum of Understanding Annual Report – 2011-12

2.1.BBC / Ukraine

MoU Partners	EGI.eu	Basic Coordination Centre (BCC) – Ukraine National Grid (UNG)
MoU Type	Resource Infrastructure Provider
Start date	22/12/2011
End date
Partner contact	BBC: Sergiy Svistunov, [e-mail]
Report date	May 2012
Milestones	http://go.egi.eu/mou-milestones-bcc

Motivation for the MoU

The specific goals of the collaboration are to:

1. 
   Enhance the capacities of both infrastructures.
   
2. 
   Provide Local and Global operational services as needed to support the international user community and the EGI operational needs.
   
3. 
   Subscribe to a mandatory set of policies, procedures and OLAs.
   
4. 
   Comply with the operations interfaces required by the EGI Operations Architecture, which are needed to ensure seamless and interoperable access to resources.
   
5. 
   Participate in the Operations Management Board in order to contribute to the EGI operations agenda.
   
6. 
   Participate in the Security Policy Team in order to contribute to the development of the security policies fabric of the infrastructure.
   

Assessment

Managerial

The cooperation has been progressing very well and culminated with the certification the Ukrainian NGI. Cooperation will continue by ensure participation of Ukrainian representatives into the EGI Operations Management Board.

Technical

The Ukrainian NGI was certified as part of the production infrastructure in June 2012.

Strategic

The creation of an Ukrainian NGI and its integration within NGI allows for the replacement of the Russian federated Operations Centre with a set of independent national Resource Providers. In addition, its integration will allow for a more extensive adoption of the ARC middleware stack.