MACE call 21-Jan-2008

*Attending*
RL "Bob" Morgan (chair)
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2
Josh Howlett, JANET
Jim Jokl, U, Virginia
Scott Cantor, OSU
Jens Haeusser, U. British Columbia
Ann West, Internet2/Educause
Renee Frost, Internet2
Neal McBurnett, Internet2
David Wasley, independent
Nate Klingenstein, Internet2
Rodney McDuff, U. Queensland
Steve Olshansky, Internet2 (scribe)

MACE welcomes 2 new members:
    Jens Haeusser, University of British Columbia
    Josh Howlett, JANET (UK)

*Upcoming meetings*
- Security+IAM CAMP http://www.educause.edu/camp081
This workshop is sold out, capped at 152. The roster of attendees is very diverse. Bridging identity and security clearly is an attractive mix.

- TF-EMC2  http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-emc2/meetings/10/
Federation is a topic of interest for this meeting. There is growing interest in the US for middleware to be applied to the network control plane (e.g. for AuthN/Z related to dynamic circuits) and performance monitoring (e.g. PerfSonar)

- Mellon RIT (Research on Information Technologies)
Mellon has been an active supporter of projects in the middleware space, and this is their annual meeting of funded projects. It will be held late February at Princeton.

- Shib CAMP May 13-15, 2008
This will be held at the Internet2 building in Ann Arbor, MI. More about this forthcoming as it develops.

- JA-SIG  http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/
RL "Bob" is on the program committee. New this year is an attempt to include several open source projects across higher ed, both in the US and internationally. There will be a Preconference seminar on IdM, targeted at developers in particular.

- Spring I2MM http://events.internet2.edu/2008/spring-mm/
Session proposals being solicited, see http://events.internet2.edu/2008/spring-mm/calls-proposals.cfm

ITANA - IT Architects Constituent Group adjacent to possible AdvancedCAMP
ACamp likely topic would be Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Tentatively June 18-20 in Minneapolis. Details being worked out, more to come as it develops.

- LIGO hackathon plans and multi-federation implications
Penn State and Stanford have IT architects attending this meeting under way this week at CalTech. LIGO is a prominent NSF-funded project and as such a very prominent VO. We are working with them to evaluate COmanage as a platform for their collaboration needs ongoing. The goal is to produce a prototype IdM approach for LIGO by the end of the week. Sources and application of attributes (i.e. utilizing attributes from different federations) are topics of great interest. Security between groups within a VO is also an interesting factor, e.g. related to instrumentation.    http://ligo.org/

*General Discussion*
-  IAM and dynamic circuits and control plane
perfSONAR and JRA5 are interested in this in Europe, and it is becoming a topic of growing interest in the US. Could COmanage provide a useful service point in this context?

- Internet2 strategic planning effort is underway.  More to come on this...
https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/I2SP/2008+INTERNET2+STRATEGIC+PLANNING

- OpenID and Federation Redux
Should federation software incorporate OpenID? It seems apparent that OpenID will be scaling up as it develops. See recent thread on the MACE list..