*MACE Conference Call*
June 26, 2006
*Attendees*
Bob Morgan (chair) - Washington
Keith Hazelton - Wisconsin
Renee Frost - Michigan/Internet2
Jim Jokl - Virginia
Mark Poepping - Carnegie Mellon
Ken Klingenstein - Colorado/Internet2
Steve Olshansky - Internet2
Paul Hill - MIT
Lynn McRae - Stanford
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2
*Discussion*
Ken attended a caBIG (https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/) meeting in Pittsburgh. Federated identity appears to be a given for caBIG; there is also lots of interest in Signet and Grouper. It's clear that setting up a single-purpose federation like caBIG's is much more straightforward than setting up a general-purpose federation. The metadata will include Institutional Review Board information (so, for example, HIPAA training at one institution could be valid at others as well); Ken described this as a sign that distributed data is building consistency of data among institutions, similarly to the way that internetworking breeds consistency at the network layer. Ken noted that caBIG understands the need to stay close to the Federal LoA requirements, in order to enable future peerings. Chad La Joie is close to the caBIG work; Keith suggested we have him join MACE calls occasionally to provide updates.
Bob noted that the Federal Demonstration Partnership (http://thefdp.org/) brings together research administrators from many Internet2 member institutions (see http://thefdp.org/Phase4_Members.html). [AI] Bob will let MACE know of any opportunities to join a conference call for the Federal Demonstration Partnership.
Ken noted that MAMS programme manager Erik Vullings is working with the myVocs collaboration environment (http://www.myvocs.org/) and wants to show it off at the upcoming Australia CAMP. Ken also noted that the UK will be spending around £20m in the virtual-organization space over the next few years; collaboration services will be a big part of this.
*Action Item*
[AI] Bob will let MACE know of any opportunities to join a conference call for the Federal Demonstration Partnership.