D5.2 Interoperable access policies: analysis and recommendations

This document contains the results of a detailed study on access policies in force or proposed for 20 European e-Infrastructures, which serve European research communities and data-intensive use cases with significant computing requirements. It defines an analysis template covering the different aspects of access policies, briefly describes the rationale for selecting the specific e-Infrastructures studied (which are either deployed and operational or planned to become so within the next 1.5 years), characterises these infrastructures, and documents the full analysis results in an Annex.

Based on the study of 14 use cases in SPECTRUM Deliverable D5.1 (Representative use cases: analysis and alignment) and material collected via the SPECTRUM Community of Practice, the studied access policies are compared to research community requirements, gaps are identified and recommendations formulated for the future evolution and improvement of access policies to meet the scientific user needs.

The deliverable will serve as one of the inputs to the second phase of SPECTRUM (months 16-30) and eventually for the SRIDA and Technical Blueprint, to be delivered at the end of the project.