**MACE Call 14-September-2009**

***NO CALL 28-September. Next Call 12-October***

**Attending**

RL "Bob" Morgan, U. Washington (chair)

Ann West, Internet2

Michael Gettes, MIT

Paul Hill, MIT

Neal McBurnett, Internet2

Jim Jokl, U. Virginia

David Wasley, independent

Renee Frost, Internet2

Steve Olshansky, Internet2 (scribe)

**New Action Items**

[AI] (Ann) will organize a call for the week of 21-September among interested MACE members about workshop planning.

[AI] (All) interested in participating in the international collaboration activity contact RL "Bob."

*Carryover Action Item*

[AI] (RL "Bob") will contact a representative of Kuali Rice about coordinating a call.

[AI] (Ken and Mark) will distribute some information on trust anchors in the context of dynamic network configuration in GENI testbed, as well as for general access control.

[AI] (Ken) will circulate some meeting notes from the last TERENA/ REFEDS meetings.

*Upcoming Meetings*

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/MACECalendar/MACE+Calendar

- Tao of Attribute workshop

September 28-29, 2009, Washington DC

- Fall Internet2 Member Meeting

Oct. 5-8, 2009, San Antonio, TX

http://events.internet2.edu/2009/fall-mm/

- DIDW/Kantara

September 14-16, 2009, Las Vegas NV

http://public.cxo.com//conferences//index.html?conferenceID=51

http://kantarainitiative.org/wordpress/about/

Scott and RL "Bob" are attending. RL "Bob" is participating in a new working group focused on "universal login experience."

- Jasig Unconference

September 28-30, 2009, Champaign, IL

http://www.jasig.org/jasig-unconference-coming

Tom and Jens will be attending.

- Fall EuroCamp

Date TBD (likely late Fall), Budapest Hungary

http://www.terena.org/activities/eurocamp/

This will be similar to Advanced CAMP. There is growing momentum around aligning IAM/security efforts across projects...

- EMC2+Mobility+Refeds,

October 21-22, 2009, Rome, Italy

http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-emc2/

RL "Bob" will be attending.

- CSG

September 23-24, 2009, Virtual

http://dev.stonesoup.org/meetings/0909/

- Tao of attributes workshop

September 28-29, 2009, Washington DC

http://middleware.internet2.edu/tao-of-attributes/

- IETF

November 8-13, 2009, Hiroshima, Japan

http://www.ietf76.jp/

**Discussion**

- Events for next year

Ann is putting together a plan for next year's events, which will include virtual versions such as webinars. She is also working on related outreach plans, including for recruiting presenters beyond the usual suspects. Federations are certain to be among the high priority topics. More to come as this develops.

[AI] (Ann) will organize a call for the week of 21-September among interested MACE members about workshop planning.

- MACE/ECAM list?

Diego will be setting up a joint list. More to come as this develops.

- intl collaboration collaboration status

KIM/Kuali is organizing an international activity around VOs and collaboration, including COmanage.

[AI] (All) interested in participating in the international collaboration activity contact RL "Bob."

- EDUCAUSE and federation

EDUCAUSE's Catalyst award honoring federated identity management was noted, as well as the recent article on this topic: "7 Things You Should Know About Federated Identity Management."

http://www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutFeder/179330

http://www.educause.edu/About+EDUCAUSE/PressReleases/EDUCAUSEHonorsTwoTransformativ/179279

- Potential use of Foodle (federated doodle) in a federated environment

Work is underway in Europe to enable this app, which currently only works with simpleSAMLphp. More to come as this develops.

- Availability of OpenID for use with US Gov't services

An OpenID 2.0 profile has been adopted. See:

http://www.idmanagement.gov/drilldown.cfm?action=openID_openGOV

There is some work underway to position OpenID and InfoCard as partner technologies, with OpenID used for LoA1 apps and InfoCard used for LoA2...