General Resources

The GNA Technical Working Group produced six documents that together are the Global Network Architecture Reference v1.0. These documents were published in January 2017:

• GNA Reference Architecture v1.0
• GNA Exchange Point Specifications v1.0
• GNA Multi-Layer Transport Services v1.0
• GNA Operations v1.0
• GNA Technical Notes v1.0
• GNA Glossary v1.0

The files above are in “PDF/Universal Accessibility” (PDF/UA) format, and hence are available to those equipped with appropriate software. The conformance with PDF/UA ensures accessibility for people with disabilities who use assistive technology such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, joysticks and other technologies to navigate and read electronic content.

Please also note that the above six documents replace the older version numbered lower than v1.0 or with version number v1.0-technical.

The GNA Technical WG also maintains an archive of GNA White Papers that are published by their respective authors, and are relevant to the GNA and define possible future work:

• The Commons in the GNA v2.5
• GNA Information Architecture v0.6
• Global Virtualization Architecture for the GNA v0.91

During the NORDUnet Conference 2018 in Helsingør, Denmark, in September 2018, the GNA Technical WG co-chairs and the GLIF co-chairs discussed a paper called “GNA Working Areas v1.1”, proposing the merger of the GNA Technical WG activities with the GLIF activities.

KDDI / APAN-JP are maintaining a monitoring effort on the GNA Compliant infrastructure for Research and Education, in the form of a reachability matrix using MaDDashes:

• Check out the GNA MaDDash run by KDDI.

Thanks to KDDI / APAN-JP for maintaining this.

The following documents are available on how GNA-G conducts it business:

• GNA-G Guidelines for Conduct v1.0

Please direct any questions or comments to the Leadership Team.