**MACE Call 2-March-2009**
**Attending**
RL "Bob" Morgan, U. Washington (chair)
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2
Leif Johansson, Stockholm University / SUNET
Paul Hill, MIT
Michael Gettes, MIT
Scott Cantor, The Ohio State U.
Steven Carmody, Brown U.
Jim Jokl, U. Virginia
Renee Frost, Internet2
Ann West, Internet2/Educause
David Wasley, independent
Neal McBurnett, Internet2
Steve Olshansky, Internet2 (scribe)
**New Action Items**
[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] (RL "Bob") will promote the MACE-paccman activity on the Educause IdM CG and TF-EMC2 lists.
*Carryover Action Item*
[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.
* Upcoming Meetings*
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/MACECalendar/MACE+Calendar
- JA-SIG Spring 2009 Conference
March 1-4, 2009, Dallas TX
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/
Tom and Scott are attending. Shibboleth/uPortal 3-tier work is making good progress, and U, Chicago is working with a vendor on this. CAS support for SAML is also progressing.
- IETF
March 22-27, 2009 San Francisco, CA
http://www.ietf.org/meetings/74/
There has been a lot of discussion on the IETF list about ISOC working with the Liberty Alliance on IdM-related issues. More to come on this as it develops. There will be a small DKIM session at the meeting.
- 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
I2MI (Ann) has been asked to present during the pre-conference seminar at the Annual PESC meeting.
[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
- 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.
- IDTrust 2009
Apr 14-16, 2009, Gaithersburg, MD (NIST)
http://middleware.internet2.edu/idtrust/2009/
Dan Blum will be giving the keynote. Attributes and AuthZ is the theme. Attribute aggregation has emerged in this context, as in a growing number of others lately. The question arose as to whether IDtbd would be appropriate to include. The program is coming along.
- 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/
[AI] (All) send suggestions for dinner theater (Kuali-Rice?) to Ken and Bob. Russ Housley (head of IESG) will be one of the keynote speakers.
- ITANA Spring Face2Face
April 29-30, 2009, Arlington, VA
http://www.itana.org/2009/01/27/itana-face2face-spring-2009/
- CSG
May 13-15, Indianapolis IN
- 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
- TERENA Networking Conference 2009
June 8-11, 2009, Málaga, Spain
**Discussion**
- USG attribute workshop
GSA is sponsoring an event that will highlight the problems and begin work towards solutions. Ken is on the program committee. Tentatively this will be held in September 2009. Attribute proliferation is among the topics at hand.
[AI] (All) interested in participating in the planning for the USG attribute workshop contact Ken.
- MACE/I2MI program
There was discussion of the draft white paper Ken distributed to the list, related to strategic plan execution. When finalized (after MACE input and recommendations), it will be submitted to AMSAC for review and further input, then on to the SPEC. More to come on this as it develops. Ken will edit the document further and distribute it to the list for further review.
[AI] (All) interested review the draft MACE/I2MI program white paper and discuss on the list or send private comments to Ken.
[AI] (All) interested review the draft MACE/I2MI program white paper and discuss on the list or send private comments to Ken.
- MACE-paccman advertisement
The working group is now up and running, with Tom Dopirak (CMU) chairing, using the previous Signet call slot. Details at http://middleware.internet2.edu/paccman/
[AI] (RL "Bob") will promote the MACE-paccman activity on the Educause IdM CG and TF-EMC2 lists.