Category
Other
Owner
WLCG
Risk Summary
European e-infrastructure diverges from WLCG needs
Risk Detail
EGI or the European Open Science Cloud infrastructures in Europe may potentially diverge from the needs of the HEP community.
Effect
A divergence may impose contradictory requirements on participating sites.
Mitigation
The main mitigation here is continued and strong engagement with the EOSC community and othe science communities to advise, shape and steer the direction of the EOSC. Today this engagement is via the ESCAPE project together with our strategic partners from astronomy and particle physics related fields.
Risk
Risk Impact
2
Risk Likelihood
2
Risk Severity
4
There has always been a tension between the value of organisations like EGI, and in the future the EOSC. This is mainly a European concern as other areas such as the US manage this at a national scale. For the future it is important that the EOSC is driven by the sciences, rather than the infrastructure providers. This is what has caused divergence in the past. ESCAPE (and the other domain projects) are a good step in the right direction. ESCAPE is fully aligned with the models that we are investigating for HL-LHC, and is supported by the particle and astronomy ESFRI communities.