**Attending**
RL "Bob" Morgan, U. Washington (chair)
Rodney McDuff, U. Queensland
Jim Jokl, U. Virginia
Steve Carmody, Brown
Jens Haeusser, U. British Columbia
Scott Cantor, The Ohio State U.
David Wasley, independent
Ann West, Internet2/Educause
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2
Nate Klingenstein, Internet2
Paul Hill, MIT
Steve Olshansky, Internet2 (scribe)

**Recent meetings**
- RSA
http://www.rsaconference.com/2008/US/home.aspx
Scott attended the Concordia conference. It was a good meeting, lots of vendors present and a number of interop issues worked through. SAML 2 interop went well. The Shibboleth SP and several SAML IdPs interoperated well also. There was also an OSIS interop event focused especially on InfoCard.

** Upcoming Meetings**
- Spring I2MM
April 21-23, 2008, Arlington VA
http://events.internet2.edu/2008/spring-mm/
As always there will be a good selection of middleware-related sessions. The InterFed BoF will start Sunday 7:30 PM, and there will be an International Reception beforehand.

Lucy Lynch (ISOC) will be the guest speaker at the MACE/Salsa dinner Tuesday 22-April. The practice of authenticating to a firewall in order to obtain an open port for a period of time, and whether external credentials would be permitted, to support a particular application was discussed as a potential topic for discussion for future engagement with ISOC. It was noted that there are some VPN services in use that route the user to a particular (e.g. filtered or unfiltered) subnet based upon their credentials and associated privileges.

- JA-SIG
April 27-30, 2008, St. Paul MN
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/
Ann is on the program committee, and planning is well under way. There will be Shibboleth and Grouper sessions. Tom, Jens, and Scott will be attending. The attendee list is online.

- EuroCAMP,
May 7-8, 2008, Stockholm Sweden
http://www.terena.org/activities/eurocamp/may08/
Planning is going well. Focus is on enabling campus applications…

- Shib CAMP
June 2008, Ann Arbor MI
http://www.educause.edu/camp082
Planning is well under way for this Shib 2.0 installfest, and there will also be a "train the trainer" track. Given the high interest in this aspect there will be a different registration process to ensure geographic diversity among other criteria to ensure the broadest possible impact. InCommon executive liaisons will be contacted to determine potential interest.

There will be similar events held in the UK and Switzerland, produced by their respective federations.

- CSG
May 14-16 2008, Ann Arbor MI
http://www.stonesoup.org/

- IIW (Internet Identity Workshop)
May 12-14, 2008, Mountain View, CA
http://iiw.idcommons.net/index.php/Iiw2008a
RL "Bob" may attend…

- TERENA+Refeds
http://tnc2008.terena.org/
http://www.terena.org/activities/refeds/
May 18 2008, Bruges, Belgium

- ITANA
June 18, 2008, Minneapolis MN
http://www.itana.org/
Agenda is online.

- Advanced CAMP: Registering, Discovering, and Using Distributed Services in Academia
June 19-20, 2008, Minneapolis MN
http://www.educause.edu/camp083
Merge of ESB and Service Registry will be the focus.

- FederationSoup
June 2-4, 2008, Seattle WA
The program committee has been assembled, and the agenda is coming together. Goal is recruit those building state and international federations to participate to the extent possible. Focus will be on policy issues, although some technical underpinnings will likely be included.

- Catalyst
June 23-27, 2008, San Diego CA
http://www.catalyst.burtongroup.com/na08/
RL "Bob" will be attending…

AACRAO+IdM
July 9-10, 2008, Baltimore
http://www.aacrao.org/identity/
There will be a whitepaper distributed in advance addressing issues in IdM for registrars. Asserting enrollment verification (aka "student-ness") for various external SPs was suggested as a common pain point and thus potential topic for inclusion.

- TF-EMC2
July 9-10, 2008, Umeå, Sweden
http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-emc2/

**Discussion**
- Final Approval: MACE-Dir SAML attribute profile doc
See http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/docs/draft-internet2-mace-dir-saml-attributes-20071202.pdf
With change bars:
http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/docs/draft-internet2-mace-dir-saml-attributes-20071202-diff.pdf

- Non-web-based AuthN/Z
In addition to Croquet, PerfSonar and Dynamic Circuits (DCN) services are also interested in non-web-based AuthN/Z. The Kerberos Consortium is interested in this topic as well.

Videoconferencing is also of interest to many in R&E. Asynchronous tools need to be integrated into the synchronous tools, as part of this effort.