*MACE Conference Call*
October 2, 2006

*Attendees*

Bob Morgan (chair) - Washington
Rodney McDuff - Queensland
Leif Johansson - Stockholm / SUNET
Ton Verschuren - SURFnet
Jim Jokl - Virginia
Michael Gettes - Duke
Renee Frost - Michigan/Internet2
Scott Cantor - OSU
Keith Hazelton - Wisconsin
Tom Barton - Chicago
Neal McBurnett - Internet2
Steve Olshansky - Internet2
Lynn McRae - Stanford
Ken Klingenstein - Colorado/Internet2
Nate Klingenstein - Internet2
Paul Hill - MIT
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Recent meetings:
- CSG met September 19-21. Bob noted that there continues to be a strong sense of the importance of middleware among the several CIOs present at the meeting. Presentations from CSG and associated workshops are at http://www.stonesoup.org/Meeting.last (bottom of page).
- Keith and Leif attended a September 25-26 meeting of GNOMIS (Greater NOrdic MIddleware Symposium), the Scandinavian counterpart to MACE. Leif noted that Keith's presentation on inter-federation work sparked interest in doing more in this area. Also received enthusiastically was a multi-vendor, cross-federation demo of access to a supercomputer in Finland. Ton noted that Sweden has joined eduroam.

Upcoming meetings:
- Bob will be at the November 5-10 IETF (http://www.ietf.org/meetings/67-IETF.html). He's looking forward to further discussion of Dick Hardt's ideas.
- The agenda for the November 7-9 CAMP on "Building a Distributed Access Management Infrastructure" is available at http://www.educause.edu/camp064.
- The Internet2 Fall Member Meeting is December 4-7 in Chicago; see http://events.internet2.edu/2006/fall-mm/. A Grid middleware session is in the works for Monday, December 4. Scott noted that many in the Grid community are unconcerned with privacy; while this makes things much simpler, it is also at odds with MACE's general approach. Scott stressed that when MACE puts forward non-privacy-protecting solutions, it is important to be clear about what specific problem we are solving, and why privacy protection is not required to solve that particular problem.
- Keith noted that 18 presentations have been accepted for the SAINT middleware workshop in January. See http://www.net.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/saint2007-middleware/ for more on this workshop.

Bob noted that eAuth (http://www.cio.gov/eauthentication/) continues to be interested in pursuing inter-federation work, and has recently put out an RFI for credential services.