**MACE Call 21-July-08**

**Attending**
Renee Frost, Internet2 (stand-in chair)
Jim Jokl, U. Virginia
Renee Shuey, The Pennsylvania State U.
Scott Cantor, The Ohio State U.
David Wasley, independent
Ann West, Internet2/Educause
Nate Klingenstein, Internet2
Jens Haeusser, U. British Columbia
Michael Gettes, MIT
Steve Olshansky, Internet2 (scribe)

**Recent meetings**

- AACRAO+IdM
July 9-10, 2008, Baltimore
http://www.aacrao.org/identity/
Ken, ReneeS, and Ann attended. Ann co-chaired the program committee. The workshop was at capacity, and there was good energy and participation. Best practices in IdM and credentialing were common issues of interest to registrars.

The lifecycle of student identity in the higher-ed context is becoming a useful model within which to talk about IdM to the registrar community. Notes from the meeting will be available, and a note will go out to this list when they are ready.

- TF-EMC2+Mobility
July 9-10, 2008, Umeå, Sweden
http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-emc2/
Planning for follow-up to the EMC2 group, which is completing its original charter, was taken up at the meeting. More to come on this…

- SWITCH Shibboleth InstallFest
July 16-18, 2008, Zürich, Switzerland
http://www.switch.ch/aai/support/presentations/installfest-2008/
Nate participated as a presenter. This was a very successful event, and there was broad EU participation beyond Switzerland.

- PESC (Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council) e-Authentication/e-Authorization (EA2) Task Force Conference Call
http://www.pesc.org/interior.php?page_id=123
Inter-institutional broader identity questions were the common theme.

* Upcoming Meetings*
- IETF
July 27-August 1, 2008, Dublin, Ireland
http://www.ietf.org/meetings/72/
RL “Bob” will be attending.

- Digital Identity Workshop
September 8-10, 2008, Anaheim, CA
http://public.cxo.com/conferences/index.html?conferenceID=24

- APAN 26
August 4-8, 2008, Queenstown, New Zealand
http://www.apan.net/meetings/newzealand2008/
There will speakers from Japanese higher-ed and the CARSI (Chinese higher-ed federation) project, as well as New Zealand

- CSG
September 24-26, 2008, Cornell University
http://www.stonesoup.org/

- Fall Internet2 Member Meeting
October 13-16, 2008, New Orleans
http://events.internet2.edu/2008/fall-mm/
The middleware track has a full set of submissions, which are being reviewed by the program committee. AMSAC will be meeting in an open session. There will also be a Habitat for Humanity day preceding the meeting. The Mace/Salsa dinner will be Tuesday evening, as in the past.

- JA-SIG UnConference
October 6-8, 2008, Madison WI
More on this as info is available.
http://www.ja-sig.org/
Planning is under way, and information is becoming available on the website.

- Educause Annual Meeting
October 28-31, 2008, Orlando FL
http://net.educause.edu/e08
There will be a number of IAM-oriented sessions, more info on this as it becomes available. There will also be an InCommon BoF, details TBD.

- Fall EuroCAMP
November 5-6, 2008, Athens
http://www.terena.org/activities/eurocamp/nov08/

- REFEDS – next meeting
http://www.terena.org/activities/refeds/
This is still in the early stages of planning. It may be appended to the November 2008 TF-EMC2 meeting.

- Fall Internet Identity Workshop
November 10-12, 2008, Mountain View, CA
http://iiw.idcommons.net/index.php/Iiw2008b

- Feb 2009 CAMP
Tempe, AZ, Date/Topics TBD
IdM for student services will likely be the topic. More on this will be forthcoming as info is available.

**Discussion**
- eduPerson revision last call
The MACE-Dir working group has submitted a new revision of the eduPerson (200806) schema for final MACE approval.
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/macedir/Draft+eduPerson+200806

With no objections noted, it was approved.

- US E-Auth
There are some recent developments that bode well for accelerated movement. More info as it becomes available.

- Federations and Liberty Alliance
The REFEDS steering committee is circulating a proposed charter for a SIG within the Liberty Alliance on interfederation. Healthcare, telecommunications, and the auto industry are potential areas of interest in addition to R&E.

- PerfSonar federated access
Note the recent mail Ken forwarded to the MACE list on this topic, comments welcomed and encouraged. Separating IdM from instrument management is the driver for this discussion.