MACE Conference Call, August 27, 2001

*MACE Conference Call*
August 27, 2001

*Attendees*

Ken Klingenstein (acting chair) - Colorado/Internet2
Ellen Vaughan - Internet2
Renee Frost - Michigan/Internet2
Jim Jokl - Virginia
Neal McBurnett
Michael Gettes - Georgetown
Steven Carmody - Brown
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Ken opened the meeting by noting that the Sept. 12-14 CSG meeting looks like it will be the biggest ever; he attributes this to widespread interest in the planned discussion of the relationship between Shibboleth and PKI. MACE will meet on Sept. 11; hopefully representatives of Microsoft will be present.

Most of the meeting was devoted to project updates.
- IBM has officially recommitted to doing coding for Shibboleth, and has assigned a lead programmer; probably some of the coding will be done by the campuses with support from IBM. The London School of Economics and Edinburgh University have agreed to be Shibboleth pilot sites. Steven's top priority now is to finalize the Shibboleth documents. [AI] Steven will work with programmers at IBM to firm up the timeline for Shibboleth coding. [AI] Ken will contact Mark Simpson at IBM about the timeline for Shibboleth coding. Ken introduced work he's been doing on generalizing the idea of Club Shib to multiple "trust communities", which he's calling "tribes"; Ken will present this work at CSG. Michael is hoping that the use of the bridge model will enable Club Shib to scale; he noted that JDK 1.4 -- now out in beta -- is bridge-aware.
- HEBCA is moving forward; launch at the end of September looks likely.
- The DoDHE group is waiting for the new version of Metamerge before doing further architectural work; they are working to get more schools involved with DoDHE user-interface issues. Ken noted that many of the deans he's talked to about DoDHE are more interested in the privacy sophistication attached to the project -- being able to hand over attributes without handing over identity -- than in DoDHE itself.
- In VidMid, Tyler Johnson and Albert School have been working with Michael on directory services for H.323 videoconferencing. [AI] Ken will work with Michael to set up a meeting with Tyler Johnson and Albert School about directory-enabling H.323. Michael asked if Internet2 OIDs could be made available for this work; [AI] Ken will let MACE know what he finds out about the rules for allocating Internet2 OID arcs, and will work with Mike LaHaye to ensure that Internet2 gets an OID registry set up.

Ken asked the group for its thoughts on the idea of creating "eduOrg", an object class which would hold institution-wide information, e.g., a pointer to a school's authentication practices. Reaction was positive; [AI] Ken will make the case for an eduOrg object class to MACE-Dir.

As there will be a face-to-face MACE meeting in Seattle on Tuesday, Sept. 11, the Monday, Sept. 10 MACE conference call is cancelled.

*Action Items*

[AI] 27-August-2001 - Steven will work with programmers at IBM to firm up the timeline for Shibboleth coding.
[AI] 27-August-2001 - Ken will contact Mark Simpson at IBM about the timeline for Shibboleth coding.
[AI] 27-August-2001 - Ken will work with Michael to set up a meeting with Tyler Johnson and Albert School about directory-enabling H.323.
[AI] 27-August-2001 - Ken will let MACE know what he finds out about the rules for allocating Internet2 OID arcs, and will work with Mike LaHaye to ensure that Internet2 gets an OID registry set up.
[AI] 27-August-2001 - Ken will make the case for an eduOrg object class to MACE-Dir.
[AI] 30-July-2001 - Steven will send out slides on PIDS, an identity standard being promulgated by OMG.
[AI] 30-July-2001 - Ken will ask Mary Kratz how she would like MACE to participate in the Internet2 Health Sciences Initiative.
[AI] 30-July-2001 - Ken will ask MACE's prospective European participants if they object to the MACE calls being scheduled for a time that's in the evening in their part of the world.
[AI] 16-July-2001 - Judith will be asked for a copy of ListProc's operational specs for informational purposes.
[AI] 16-July-2001 - Ken will schedule BoFs at various meetings about participation agreements for inter-realm applications.
[AI] 16-July-2001 - All will send Bob URLs for authorization projects currently taking place on campuses.
[AI] 2-July-2001 - Ken will draft a half-page agreement for Michael to ask DoDHE participants to sign.
[AI] 18-June-01 - MACE will continue its discussion of issues around expanding its membership, then vote on who to ask to join; if those selected are not interested, further votes will be taken as necessary.
[AI] 18-June-01 - Keith will forward Ryan Muldoon's material on OIDs to Ben, for incorporation into http://middleware.internet2.edu/docs/a-brief-guide-to-OIDs.doc.
[AI] 18-June-01 - Ben will post a revised version of http://middleware.internet2.edu/docs/a-brief-guide-to-OIDs.doc.
[AI] 18-June-01 - Steven will talk to Mike LaHaye about the possibility of Internet2 deploying an LDAP-enabled list server.
[AI] 4-June-01 - Ken will ask Von Welch and Steve Tuecke if they want to participate in the PKI Labs research conference.
[AI] 4-June-01 - Bob will send the list proposed changes to the middleware document standards.