**MACE Call 16-March-2009**
**Attending**
RL "Bob" Morgan, U. Washington (chair)
Renee Shuey, The Penn State U.
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2
Josh Howlett, JANET(UK)
Michael Gettes, MIT
Scott Cantor, The Ohio State U.
Steven Carmody, Brown U.
Tom Barton, U. Chicago
Ann West, Internet2
David Wasley, independent
Jens Haeusser, U. British Columbia
Neal McBurnett, Internet2
Nate Klingenstein, Internet2
Steve Olshansky, Internet2 (scribe)
**New Action Items**
[AI] (All) interested in attending ID-Legal to represent MACE, contact RL "Bob"
*Carryover Action Item*
[AI] (RL "Bob") will ping some PESC contacts about potential attendees at the PESC meeting.
[AI] (All) interested in attending and presenting at the PESC meeting contact Ann
[AI] (All) interested in participating in the planning for the USG attribute workshop contact Ken.
[AI] (All) interested review the draft MACE/I2MI program white paper and discuss on the list or send private comments to Ken.
[AI] (All) send suggestions for I2MM dinner theater to Ken and Bob.
[AI] (All) discuss the MACE program going forward on the mailing list.
[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 recent TERENA/REFEDS meetings.
*Recent Meetings*
- JA-SIG Spring 2009 Conference
March 1-4, 2009, Dallas TX
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/
Shibboleth/uPortal, and general IAM, were areas of much attention. Some Kuali board members were in attendance. It was noted that there is not a formal relationship between Kuali Rice and JA-SIG, but rather the principals communicate informally and often.
Clarifying the vision and mission of JA-SIG were also a focus...
- UPGI Annual Symposium, Japan (?? Nate??)
Nate attended, and reported that federated identity is gaining significant traction.
- APAN 27
2 to 6 March 2-6, 2009, Kaohsiung Taiwan
http://www.apan.net/meetings/kaohsiung2009/
Nate attended, and reported that the middleware session was well attended, and more countries are showing significant interest.
* Upcoming Meetings*
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/MACECalendar/MACE+Calendar
- IETF
March 22-27, 2009 San Francisco, CA
http://www.ietf.org/meetings/74/
There will be a small DKIM session at the meeting. There has been a lot of discussion on the IETF list about ISOC working with the Liberty Alliance on IdM-related issues.
- PESC
April 5-8, 2009, Washington, DC
http://www.pesc.org/interior.php?page_id=191
http://www.pesc.org/interior.php?page_id=192
Ann will be organizing a pre-conference seminar about federation, Shibboleth, etc.; there will also be a BoF on this topic during the main meeting.
- EuroCAMP
May 15-16, 2009, Cork, Ireland
http://www.terena.org/activities/eurocamp/
This is shaping up to be similar in focus to Base Camps, focusing on campus infrastructure, but with an emphasis on federation. Penn State's CIO will be attending.
- ID-Legal
April 14-15, 2009, Washington, DC
http://wiki.idcommons.net/ID-Legal
[AI] (All) interested in attending ID-Legal to represent MACE, contact RL "Bob"
- IDTrust 2009
Apr 14-16, 2009, Gaithersburg, MD (NIST)
http://middleware.internet2.edu/idtrust/2009/
- RSA Conference 2009
April 20-24, 2009, San Francisco, CA
http://www.rsaconference.com/2009/US/Home.aspx
There will be an identity day preceding the main meeting, with the InfoCard and Liberty Alliance communities represented, among others. RL "Bob" will be part of a panel on IdM-related topics.
- Spring Internet2 Member Meeting
April 27-29, 2009, Arlington, VA
http://events.internet2.edu/2009/spring-mm/
Russ Housley (head of IESG) will be one of the keynote speakers.
There is discussion of a BoF to discuss Kuali Rice and integration with I2MI. More to come on this TBA.
- ITANA Spring Face2Face
April 29-30, 2009, Arlington, VA
http://www.itana.org/2009/01/27/itana-face2face-spring-2009/
Registration for the meeting may not meet the minimum by Friday, in which case it will be canceled.
- CSG
May 13-15, Indianapolis IN
http://www.stonesoup.org/
- TF-Mobility/EMC2
Next TBD
http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-emc2/
http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-mobility/
Attribute aggregation and extending federation beyond SSO seem to be emerging as topics.
There has been renewed (narrow) interest in Eduroam in the US. More to come on this as it develops. It may be that growing wireless availability is driving this...
- June 2009 CAMP & Advanced CAMP
June 15-19, 2009, location TBD
Program committees for both are getting rolling.
"Building blocks of access management" will be the topic for CAMP.
Advanced CAMP will follow, and "identity summit" (e.g. the integration of identity models between social networking sites and the campus) will be the topic. Working with the open source community us emerging as a sub-theme. The program committee is under way, and Kuali (Rice/KIM) and JA-SIG are represented.
- REFEDs 2009
TBD
- IIW
May 18-20, 2009. Mountain View, CA
http://iiw.idcommons.net/Iiw8
- TERENA Networking Conference 2009
June 8-11, 2009, Málaga, Spain
http://tnc2009.terena.org/
**Discussion**
- Internet2 strategic planning - MACE/I2MI program
MACE has been invited to continue to contribute to the strategic planning activity, starting with reviewing the draft whitepaper Ken distributed after the last call. Ken will next pass it along to the AMSAC co-chairs for review.
- Internet2 elections
The board and council election results are now final. See http://www.internet2.edu/elections/
- USG -- Silver, OpenID, attributes
The InCommon Silver profile is being discussed and evaluated in the government context. There may be a meeting of the principals adjacent to the Spring I2MM. More to come on this as it develops.
Early planning is underway for an attribute-focused workshop later this year. More to come on this as it develops.
- InCommon-Future
They will be meeting F2F later this week in California.
- Refeds
This is progressing, overlapping a bit onto the TF-EMC2 mailing list.
- MACE-paccman
This is making progress, and there will be a session at the Spring I2MM.