NMI: Extending Integrated Middleware to Collaborative Environments in Research and Education

在现有NMI-EDIT工作的基础上，该提案打算在安全、目录、虚拟组织（VO）管理和中间件端到端诊断等多个特定主题领域设定新的方向，同时继续在扩展和评估服务方面做出努力。具体而言，拟议的工作将：通过扩展核心企业体系结构来满足未满足的需求，包括企业和联邦安全以及授权中的重要新工具，完成基本目录服务开发，特别关注对跨领域目录操作的支持，建立框架和相关工具来支持中间件诊断的关键需求，提供评估和扩展，以确保NMI资金的持续成功影响。这些目标的实现将产生广泛的影响：加强校园核心中间件基础设施的能力，以支持研究、教育和管理，以及校园部署的广度，通过共享数据、数字图书馆、基于网络的服务、计算、代码、设施，促进许多科学领域的多学科、多机构协作。应用程序继续在越来越多的应用程序中利用用户管理的安全和隐私，并提供可扩展和可持续的架构，这是中间件成功所需的，促进和支持开放标准和开源方法的发展，并鼓励与政府和国际合作伙伴的合作。该项目的成果还可能带来额外的好处，包括将研究材料无缝、及时地整合到学术课件中；聘请并留住顶尖大学中最优秀、最聪明的IT架构师，在不太可能的机构中发现专业知识的瑰宝；创建一个从业者社区，他们正在开发和完善最佳实践，从而加速部署和融合；并对企业部门产生影响，形成一个联邦市场，满足高等教育对隐私和安全的要求。

Building on the foundations of the existing NMI-EDIT work, this proposal intends to set new directions in a number of specific thematic areas within Security, Directories, Virtual Organization (VO) Management, and Middleware End-to-End Diagnostics, while continuing its efforts in Outreach and Evaluation services. Specifically, the proposed work will: respond to unmet needs by expanding core enterprise architecture to include important new tools in enterprise and federated security and in authorization complete basic directory service developments, with particular focus on support of inter-realm directory operations establish a framework and associated tools to support critical needs for middleware diagnostics provide evaluation and outreach to ensure continuing successful impact of NMI funding.Accomplishment of these objectives will have broad impact by:strengthening the ability of campus core middleware infrastructure to support research, education, and administration, and the breadth of campus deploymentsfacilitating multidisciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration in many scientific areas through shared data, digital libraries, web-based services, computing, code, facilities, and applicationscontinuing to leverage user-managed security and privacy in a growing number of applications and provide the scalable and sustainable architecture that success in middleware requirespromoting and supporting the development of open standards and open source approaches, and encouraging collaboration with government and international partners.The project's outcomes also are likely to have additional benefits, including seamless and timely integration of research materials into academic courseware; engagement and retention of the best and brightest IT architects from leading campuses and discovery of gems of expertise in unlikely institutions; creation of a community of practitioners, who are developing and refining best practices that have, in turn, accelerated deployments and convergence; and influence on the corporate sector, shaping a federated marketplace that serves higher education requirements for privacy and security.