*MACE Conference Call*
June 12, 2006

*Attendees*

Keith Hazelton (acting chair) - Wisconsin
Bob Morgan (chair) - Washington
Nate Klingenstein - Internet2
Ken Klingenstein - Colorado/Internet2
Steve Olshansky - Internet2
Walter Hoehn - Memphis
Steve Carmody - Brown
Jim Jokl - Virginia
Mark Poepping - Carnegie Mellon
Renee Frost - Michigan/Internet2
Scott Cantor - OSU
Tom Barton - Chicago
Lynn McRae - Stanford
Neal McBurnett - Internet2
David Wasley - independent
Michael Gettes - Duke
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Liberty Alliance wants to launch an open-source implementation of WSF 2.0; the group discussed MACE's possible involvement. The initial use case will be web services clients for libraries. A SIG is being formed; [AI] Bob will send MACE a list of the main points he expects to see in the charter of the open-source WSF 2.0 SIG. A formal announcement of this project is planned for July.

Ken and Mark met with Microsoft Research to discuss network admission control and identity management issues. Microsoft's customers have been asking about support for use cases involving roaming external users needing access to corporate networks; Ken noted this as an example of "the problems we see in higher education being more early than different."

Steve Carmody noted that the Shibboleth 2.0 beta is now expected in mid-Fall; the Shibboleth team would like to see a lot more experimentation with the alpha version in the next few months.

The Shibboleth and Workflow CAMPs are the week of June 26; see http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=9. About 175 attendees are expected for the Shibboleth CAMP.

Lynn and Keith attended JA-SIG (http://web.princeton.edu/sites/isapps/jasig/2006summerVancouver/) and gave a Grouper and Signet presentation, which was well-received. [AI] Keith will find out more about uPortal's plans for group and permissions management in version 3.0, to see if there's value in closer collaboration with the Grouper and Signet projects.

*Action Items*

[AI] Bob will send MACE a list of the main points he expects to see in the charter of the open-source WSF 2.0 SIG.
[AI] Keith will find out more about uPortal's plans for group and permissions management in version 3.0, to see if there's value in closer collaboration with the Grouper and Signet projects.