MACE

Middleware Architecture Committee for Education

Members - Minutes - About MACE

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• MACE-Dir's many projects include the eduPerson directory schema, the Directory of Directories for Higher Education, and the LDAP Recipe. MACE-Dir is chaired by Keith Hazelton.
• MACE-PKI works with the Federal PKI Technical Working Group, and, via participation in HEPKI, investigates technical and policy issues in the deployment of a public key infrastructure for higher education. MACE-PKI is chaired by Jim Jokl.
• MACE-Shibboleth is creating a web-based inter-institutional resource sharing mechanism. This work is supported by our corporate partner, IBM. MACE-Shibboleth is chaired by Steven Carmody.
• MACE-WebISO is investigating "web initial sign-on" packages: systems designed to allow users to use a standard central service to authenticate to web-based services across many web servers. MACE-WebISO is chaired by Nathan Dors.
• MACE administers a Uniform Resource Name (URN) namespace, supporting the assignment of unique, global, persistent names to resources of various kinds by MACE and its delegates. MACE also administers an Object Identifier arc for identifying resources of various kinds for Internet2/MACE projects and working groups.
• MACE-courseID works to further the development of course data elements for higher education, and to adapt existing developments for use in directory-enabled infrastructures.

• RL "Bob" Morgan (chair) - University of Washington
• Tom Barton - University of Chicago
• Scott Cantor - The Ohio State University
• Steven Carmody - Brown University
• Michael Gettes - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Brian Gilmore (European liaison) - The University of Edinburgh
• Jens Haeusser, University of British Columbia
• Keith Hazelton - University of Wisconsin
• Paul Hill - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Josh Howlett (European liaison) - JANET(UK)
• Leif Johansson (European liaison) - Stockholm University / SUNET
• Jim Jokl - University of Virginia
• Ken Klingenstein - Internet2 / University of Colorado
• Scotty Logan - Stanford University
• Diego Lopez (European liaison) - RedIRIS
• Rodney McDuff (Australian liaison) - The University of Queensland
• Mark Poepping - Carnegie Mellon University
• Ton Verschuren - independent
• David Wasley - independent
• Von Welch (Grid liaison) - The Distributed Systems Laboratory at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory / The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois

About MACE

In order to help create a national interoperable middleware infrastructure for research and education, Internet2 has brought together a group of leading campus IT architects to provide technical advice and direction. This group, called MACE (Middleware Architecture Committee for Education), draws its members from universities that are doing advanced work in this area. MACE aims to foster interoperability in areas such as security and directories. The MACE working agenda is set by campus CIOs and by partners in higher education and research. By developing good-practices documents, designing pilot projects and inter-campus experiments, and recommending technical standards, MACE hopes to bring about the deployment of a common middleware infrastructure to support the academic and administrative needs of the research and education community.

MACE forms working groups as needed to explore specific issues. The working groups are open to broad membership from the higher education and research communities, but overall size may be restricted in order to facilitate group operations.