*MACE conference call, November 20, 2000*

*Attendees*

Bob Morgan (chair)
Keith Hazelton
Scott Fullerton
David Wasley
Ken Klingenstein
Neal McBurnett
Paul Hill
Renee Frost
Michael Gettes
Jim Jokl
Steven Carmody
Ben Chinowsky (scribe)

*Discussion*

The meeting opened with a discussion of two areas in which Grid researchers have recently expressed interest in working with MACE. GriPhyN (the Grid Physics Network; see www.griphyn.org) is one; it is part of Globus, and Ian Foster is one of its two PIs. GriPhyN will likely become a model for other discipline-specific grids. The Grid researchers are also interested in working more closely with MACE on CP-related projects such as gridPerson. Keith noted that Wisconsin PKI Labs participant Todd Tannenbaum is the project manager for Condor and has longstanding connections to Grid researchers, including Steve Tuecke. [AI] Keith will discuss Grid/MACE collaboration possibilities with Steve Tuecke, and in particular will ask him to suggest someone from the Grid for MACE membership. There was general agreement that HEPKI would welcome Grid participation as well.

There were short project updates on Shibboleth, eduPerson, DoDHE, and MACE-Med. The first regularly-scheduled (biweekly) Shibboleth call went well; Steven is working on updates to the requirements and scenarios documents. A conference call about programming resources in Austin is scheduled for later this week. Ken noted that Shibboleth was very well received at the DLF meeting he was at yesterday, and Steven noted that the Shibboleth group is planning to pursue pseudonymous access to DNS in Phase One of the project. Several of the corporations likely to participate in Shibboleth will probably not be joining Internet2; Ken has verified that this is not going to present a problem. The eduPerson group expects that in next Monday's MACE-Dir call it will be able to nail down the final, final, final details necessary for the proclamation of eduPerson v1.0. Michael has been discussing DoDHE design issues with Roland Hedburg; [AI] Michael will write up a description of DoDHE design issues and send it to the MACE-Dir list. [AI] Ken will send John Fowler a note requesting more information on Sun's plans with respect to DoDHE. Mary Kratz has held a number of workshops on medical middleware and is working with Bill Braithwaite to plot a course for the MACE-Med work.

Jim provided a brief HEPKI-TAG update; the main current areas of work for TAG are dc naming, HEBCA, mobility, private-key protection, and cert-profile convergence. In HEPKI-PAG, the CP-comparison work continues; drafting a model campus CP is the next main task. PAG has recently started discussions with some of the NECCC (www.ec3.org) state coordinating groups. Barb Nanzig is arranging for legal review of the HEBCA CP. Keith noted that more policy developments are expected from the broad EDUCAUSE-coordinated meeting taking place on Nov. 29.

NSF is planning to issue a middleware solicitation. Ken will be attending a brainstorming meeting with Ian Foster, several NSFers, and others on Dec. 1 in Berkeley, and he encouraged MACE to provide suggestions for projects for NSF to fund. MACE will need to produce a white paper before the formal solicitation comes out; [AI] Ken will send MACE the public documents associated with the upcoming NSF middleware solicitation.

Finally the group discussed document classification and naming within I2-MI. As the number and variety of contributors increase, there is a need for greater clarity about what contributions are to be made generally available and what degree of officialness they are to be stamped with. The group also discussed the possibility of setting up a central repository for Internet2 middleware documents. [AI] Bob will write up his proposed standards for I2-MI document types and procedures, and send the proposal to MACE.

*Action Items*

[AI] Keith will discuss Grid/MACE collaboration possibilities with Steve Tuecke, and in particular will ask him to suggest someone from the Grid for MACE membership.
[AI] Michael will write up a description of DoDHE design issues and send it to the MACE-Dir list.
[AI] Ken will send John Fowler a note requesting more information on Sun's plans with respect to DoDHE.
[AI] Ken will send MACE the public documents associated with the upcoming NSF middleware solicitation.
[AI] Bob will write up his proposed standards for I2-MI document types and procedures, and send the proposal to MACE.