[[PageOutline]]

== Project Number ==

1706

== Project Title ==

netKarma: GENI Provenance Registry[[BR]]
a.k.a. NETKARMA

=== Technical Contacts ===

Beth Plale <plale@cs.indiana.edu>
Chris Small <chsmall@cs.indiana.edu>

=== Participating Organizations ===

[http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/ Indiana University School of Informatics]
Bloomington, IN 47405-7104

=== GPO Liason System Engineer ===

Christopher Small <chris@geni.net>

== Scope ==

The project will collect provenance of the data generated by GENI. The
provenance of an experiment is its lineage or historical trace that
can capture experiment conditions, time ordering, and relationships
within the experiment and across the experiment and infrastructure
layer. The project will develop a GENI Provenance Registry (netKarma)
that will capture the workflow of GENI slice creation, topology of the
slice, operational status and other measurement statistics and
correlate it with the experimental data. NetKarma will allow
researchers to see the exact state of the network and store
configuration of the experiment and its slice.

=== Current Capabilities ===

=== Milestones ===

Nov 16 (GEC 7):
• Create 3-5 page whitepaper describing our approach to integrating Karma and
GENI including description of problem, explanation of solution, how solution fits
in with GENI, and how it will be used.
Dec 31:
• Set up project web page
• Establish connections with relevant experimental tools projects
o GUSH PI: Jeannie Albrecht URL:
http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GushProto
o RAVEN PI: John Hartman URL:
http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/ProvisioningService
o Identify Year 2 projects with which to integrate, in consultation with the
GPO. The scope of the integration work will be on par with the level of
effort integrating with RAVEN and GUSH.
Mar 31:
• Demonstrate working version of netKarma ingesting from GUSH. Demo includes
simple display of provenance. Delivered at GEC-7.
Jul 31:
• Establish connections with relevant projects in Control Plane and Measurement
Plane such as the following. Produce plan for working with Control Plane and
Measurement Plane projects.
Sep 30:
• Deliver document on experience in gathering information from experimental tools
with any suggestions for additional information that could be collected that would
enhance the provenance record.
• Deliver netKarma User Document
• Deliver persistent prototype of provenance service hosted at Indiana University
that collects and serves experiment layer provenance. Prototype demo, which
will have support for Raven and GUSH, will be held at GEC-9 with venue/process
for soliciting user feedback.

[[MilestoneDate(CMU Lab: S2.a)]] Short Milestone Description
[[BR]]

== Project Technical Documents ==

=== Quarterly Status Reports ===

due 31Dec09: [wiki:ProjTemp-4Q09-status 4Q09 Status Report]

=== Spiral 2 Connectivity ===

=== Related Projects ===