*MACE Conference Call*
July 25, 2005

*Attendees*

Bob Morgan (chair) - Washington
Ken Klingenstein - Colorado/Internet2
Brian Gilmore - Edinburgh
Paul Hill - MIT
Steve Carmody - Brown
Scott Cantor - OSU
Tom Barton - Chicago
Renee Frost - Michigan/Internet2
David Wasley - independent
Steve Olshansky - Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Recent meetings:
- Ken attended the Vancouver Joint Techs Workshop (http://jointtechs.es.net/vancouver2005/Vancouver20051.htm). A session on DNSSEC with Bill Manning and Allison Mankin was particularly compelling; the next JT will include a workshop on DNSSEC deployment. A discussion group is also planned, to address the various approaches to DNSSEC and what needs to be done in the Internet2 context. Shinkuro, where Mankin works, is playing a major role in driving DNSSEC deployment; see http://www.shinkuro.com/dnssec.php.
- The Shibboleth interop demo at Catalyst went well. Also, the core middleware sessions were packed and got some coverage in the trade press.
- Steve Carmody attended a Sakai interop meeting in New Haven. Chuck Severance says these meetings are starting to draw more deployers; in the past they've mostly drawn developers. This community appears to have growing interest in enterprise interoperability via web services, and in Shibboleth.

Upcoming meetings:
- The next EuroCAMP will be November 7-9 in Porto, Portugal.
- The next US CAMP will be in February 2006. [AI] Renee will find out what the timeline is for choosing a topic and level (Base or Advanced) for the February 2006 CAMP.

Work on USHER continues. An USHER Policy Authority has formed, overlapping with the HEBCA PA, and there are some resources for an early adopters program.

Bob is continuing to recruit for the InCommon Technical Advisory Committee; contact him if you are interested.

The Shibboleth-enabled FastLane pilot has been delayed, probably until September. Steve Carmody is confident this will be ready for a demo at the Fall Internet2 Member Meeting, which is September 19-22 in Philadelphia.

The group continued its discussion of the need for a general Internet2 middleware discussion list. There was general agreement that, given the emergence of areas of work that involve multiple types of middleware (e.g. virtual organizations; the need for support, especially at smaller schools; the identity-management provisioning model), such a group could be helpful. There was also general agreement that this would need to be a moderated list with a well-defined purpose. It's expected that a substantial time commitment would be needed, both from the moderator(s) and from experts who'd need to be recruited to contribute in various areas. [AI] All will send MACE their thoughts on reviving mw-discuss.

*Action Items*

[AI] Renee will find out what the timeline is for choosing a topic and level (Base or Advanced) for the February 2006 CAMP.
[AI] All will send MACE their thoughts on reviving mw-discuss.