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

这项提议在现有国家管理信息系统编辑工作的基础上，打算在安保、目录、虚拟组织(VO)管理和中间件端到端诊断方面的若干具体专题领域确定新的方向，同时继续在外联和评价服务方面作出努力。具体地说，拟议的工作将：通过扩大核心企业架构以包括企业和联合安全和授权中的重要新工具来响应未满足的需求，完成基本目录服务开发，特别侧重于支持跨领域目录操作建立一个框架和相关工具，以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。完成这些目标将产生广泛的影响，通过以下方式：加强校园核心中间件基础设施支持研究、教育和管理的能力，以及校园部署的广度通过共享数据促进许多科学领域的多学科、多机构合作，数字图书馆、基于网络的服务、计算、代码、设施和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，并提供中间件成功所要求的可扩展和可持续的架构，以促进和支持开放标准和开放源码方法的发展，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产生额外的好处，包括将研究材料无缝和及时地整合到学术课件中；吸引和留住顶尖园区中最优秀和最聪明的IT架构师，并在不太可能的机构中发现专业知识的瑰宝；创建从业人员社区，他们正在开发和完善最佳实践，进而加快部署和融合；以及对企业部门的影响，塑造一个满足高等教育隐私和安全要求的联合市场。

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.