*MACE Conference Call*
August 20, 2007

*Attendees*

Bob Morgan (chair) - Washington
Neal McBurnett - Internet2
Nate Klingenstein - Internet2
Scott Cantor - OSU
Leif Johansson - Stockholm/SUNET
Renee Frost - Michigan/Internet2
Michael Gettes - Internet2
Jim Jokl - Virginia
Steve Carmody - Brown
David Wasley - independent
Ken Klingenstein - Colorado/Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Upcoming meetings:
- Scott is planning to attend at least part of the W3C Workshop on Next Steps for XML Signature and XML Encryption, September 25-26 in Mountain View. See http://www.w3.org/2007/xmlsec/ws/cfp.
- David Wasley will be at the September 26 Concordia workshop at DIDW in San Francisco; see http://projectconcordia.org/index.php/Main_Page#Meeting_Schedule.
- About 50 people are expected for the October 3-5 Mellon/NSF workflow meeting in Baltimore. James Dalziel has confirmed that he can make it. [AI] Ken will send MACE discussion points for the Mellon/NSF workflow meeting.
- Bob is planning to submit a paper for the ISOC Board of Trustees' October 5-6 special session on "Trust and the Future of the Internet" (http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/headlines/20070809.shtml).
- The Internet2 Member Meeting is October 8-11 in San Diego; the program is at http://events.internet2.edu/2007/fall-mm/agenda.cfm. The guest speaker for the Tuesday evening MACE/Salsa dinner will be kc claffy (http://www.caida.org/home/seniorstaff/kclaffy.xml).
- The next EuroCAMP will take place November 14-15 in Dubrovnik, Croatia; see http://www.terena.org/activities/eurocamp/november07/. They'll be looking for at least one attendee from the US.

A list of members of the new Internet2 Applications, Middleware & Services Advisory Council (AMSAC) is now available at http://www.internet2.edu/about/governance/advisorycouncils.html#AMSAC.

A mailing list has been set up to discuss "SAML and Kerberos intersections"; see http://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/kaml.

*Action Items*

(new)
[AI] Ken will send MACE discussion points for the Mellon/NSF workflow meeting.

(from previous calls)
[AI] Ken will ping his National Archives contact for a workshop agenda, and circulate it to the list (see https://collaborate.oclc.org/wiki/gdfr/about.html).
[AI] Bob will draft recommendations for app developers re AuthN/AuthZ (attributes), and post them to a wiki; Leif will provide references for J2EE text.
[AI] Ken will set up an outreach, education, and support conference call, and notify MACE.
[AI] Bob will organize a conference call about getting mace-collab-core going.
[AI] Bob will talk to Vinay Kumar about possible roles for 9Star in supporting MACE-ware.
[AI] Keith will draft a summary of the OpenID discussion on the May 14 MACE call, for further discussion on the MACE list.