*MACE Conference Call*
April 16, 2007

*Attendees*

Bob Morgan (chair) - Washington
Rodney McDuff - Queensland
Keith Hazelton - Wisconsin
Michael Gettes - Internet2
Jim Jokl - Virginia
Steve Carmody - Brown
Scott Cantor - OSU
Renee Frost - Michigan/Internet2
Ann West - Internet2
Steve Olshansky - Internet2
Ken Klingenstein - Colorado/Internet2
David Wasley - independent
Lynn McRae - Stanford

*Discussion*

Current and upcoming meetings:
- Ken is at CNI today; see http://www.cni.org/tfms/2007a.spring/.
- Middleware presentations from the Internet2 Member Meeting will be posted at http://events.internet2.edu/2007/spring-mm/agenda.cfm?event=267&day=&track=56&details=on.
- The May 22 ITANA face-to-face meeting is coming together; see https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Face2Face. Bob noted that ITANA is still looking for new members, in particular new members from outside the MACE orbit. See http://www.itana.org/how-to-join-itana/.
- Shibboleth CAMP is June 25-27; see http://www.educause.edu/camp072. Steve Carmody noted that the schedule will have less lecture and more discussion time than in the past.
- Advanced CAMP is June 27-29; see http://www.educause.edu/camp073. Bob is working with program committee member Christopher Mackie on including content on Mellon-funded projects.

Ken has drafted a charter for mace-collab-core; Bob and Michael are reviewing it.

Bob noted that InCommon is readying an outreach effort to increase federation participation by university libraries.

The group noted the release of an Oxford Computer Group paper on Shibboleth-ADFS federation interoperability; see http://www.oxfordcomputergroup.com/ocg.aspx?nav=resource.tem/MAAF4321837. Bob observed that while most service providers would prefer that federations all do things the same way, ADFS is likely to see wide deployment, and pursuing interoperability is likely to help the cause of federations as a whole. [On April 21 Chad LaJoie posted some comments at https://www.middleware.georgetown.edu/confluence/display/~lajoie/ADFSShibInteropWP.]

Finally the group discussed the future of the Autograph user attribute release tool. There was general agreement that the need for this tool is growing along with the number of Shibbolized service providers. [AI] Steve Carmody and Ken will work their contacts around getting Autograph built.

*Action Item*

[AI] Steve Carmody and Ken will work their contacts around getting Autograph built.