*MACE Conference Call*
January 24, 2005

*Attendees*

Bob Morgan (chair) - Washington
Keith Hazelton - Wisconsin
Steve Carmody - Brown
Jim Jokl - Virginia
Tom Barton - Chicago
Neal McBurnett - Internet2
David Wasley - independent
Ken Klingenstein - Colorado/Internet2
Scott Cantor - OSU
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

The Calconnect calendaring and scheduling consortium (http://www.calconnect.org/) met recently in Seattle; there was a promising demo of the Calconnect protocol. Calconnect aims to feed into the IETF standards process, not set up one of its own. Paul Hill chairs this group; Michael and Bob are also involved. Calconnect already includes several major players including Mozilla, Oracle, and OSAF. Bob and Keith are working to recruit more corporate participants; further university members are also welcome.

Upcoming meetings:
- TF-EMC2 meets February 16-17 in Amsterdam; EuroCAMP is March 2-4 in Turin. Also, Diego is interested in recruiting people to come to Amsterdam the week after TF-EMC2 for discussion of Internet2 projects. The EuroCAMP program is still being developed; contact Ken or Bob if you're interested in presenting at EuroCAMP.
- Bob noted that Kim Cameron is involved in putting together an interesting-looking identity workshop. Watch http://www.identityblog.com/ for more information.
- Planning for the Spring Internet2 Member Meeting is underway; see http://events.internet2.edu/2005/spring-mm/. Signet and Grouper are expected to be prominent, and there's likely to be something more like an integrated middleware track than in the past. A workshop on metadirectories and provisioning is also a possibility. Steve is working with Renee on the MM agenda; Ken is working on finding a guest for the MACE dinner.
- The group agreed that virtual organizations and middleware integration will be the focus for the June Advanced CAMP. [AI] Keith will recruit Roland Hedberg for the June Advanced CAMP.

Work continues on a common storefront for HEBCA, USHER, and InCommon; the goal is to be able to announce the service at the Member Meeting.

Steve noted that Eduserv is releasing some Shibboleth-compatible software this weekend. [AI] Steve will put Bob in touch with Eduserv developers to talk about licensing options.

Finally, the group paused to celebrate two recent developments:
- Elsevier, which Steve has heard described as "the Microsoft of the online publishing world", is planning to move their Shibboleth-enabled e-science application from InQueue to InCommon in February. This will be the first production use of InCommon by a vendor. [AI] Steve will send out an update on vendors' plans to deploy Shibboleth. Steve is also working with Greg Wood on publicity for vendor deployments of Shibboleth.
- SAML 2.0 has been sent to the OASIS committee for evaluation; Bob noted that this essentially means that it's done.

*Action Items*

[AI] Keith will recruit Roland Hedberg for the June Advanced CAMP.
[AI] Steve will put Bob in touch with Eduserv developers to talk about licensing options.
[AI] Steve will send out an update on vendors' plans to deploy Shibboleth.