*MACE Conference Call*
November 13, 2006

*Attendees*

Bob Morgan (chair) - Washington
Ton Verschuren - SURFnet
Jim Jokl - Virginia
David Wasley - independent
Lynn McRae - Stanford
Tom Barton - Chicago
Renee Frost - Michigan/Internet2
Scott Cantor - OSU
Steve Carmody - Brown
Paul Hill - MIT
Ken Klingenstein - Colorado/Internet2
Mark Poepping - Carnegie Mellon
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Recent meetings:
- Bob and Ken attended an EDUCAUSE-organized meeting on making the case for IdM to university boards. CIOs, alumni relations, HR, finance, registrars, student affairs, and NSF were all represented. Interest appears to be growing; a writeup of the meeting is in the works, and a follow-on meeting is being planned for next year.
- Michael Sessa at PESC is organizing an authentication task force; his intent is to bring in multiple communities such as media and K12. Several MACErs participated in a conference call aimed at getting this off the ground. Michael Sessa is working on a charter.
- The Distributed Access Management Infrastructure CAMP was a success. It drew about 120 people, of whom about 50 attended the management track and 70 the technology track. Lynn noted that the self-assessment got people really engaged; he'd like to revise it for continued use. Tom commented that the discussions were some of the best he's heard at a CAMP. The discussion was largely driven by real-world use cases, in particular caBIG and the IdM systems at Stanford and Washington. Materials from CAMP are at http://www.educause.edu/Proceedings/11321.
- Bob was at IETF. He noted that there was little discussion of Web sign-on this time, so it's looking less likely that there will be IETF standardization in this space. There was some discussion of Leif's current I-Ds; see http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-johansson-http-gss-00.txt and http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-johansson-http-tls-cb-00.txt.

Ken noted that the Internet2 Real Time Communications Advisory Group has released its final report; see http://www.internet2.edu/rtc/. RTC-AG is interested in having MACE's help with some of the implementation issues.

Bob called the group's attention to the formation of the Domain Assurance Council, which is building on DKIM to do reputation-based trusted email. See http://domain-assurance.org/. Former Internet Mail Consortium director Paul Hoffman is the force behind DAC.

Internet2 Member Meeting plans:
- The Monday afternoon Grid-Campus Integration BoF continues to grow; Ken is hopeful that this meeting will generate consensus on several open issues.
- E-Auth is working on a demo using the production version of FastLane. Steve Carmody noted that this will be a technical interoperability demo only; no policy framework will be associated with it.
- Steve Carmody called the group's attention to a session on extending RADIUS to use SAML assertions (http://events.internet2.edu/2006/fall-mm/sessionDetails.cfm?session=2906&event=258). Two proposals will be presented: Diego will present DAMe (http://dame.inf.um.es/), and Bob will present an approach that Steve wrote up based on an idea of Scott's.