**MACE Call 27-October-08**

**Attending**
RL "Bob" Morgan, U. Washington (chair)
Leif Johansson, Stockholm University / SUNET
Tom Barton, U. Chicago
Renee Shuey, The Pennsylvania State U.
Max Miller, The Pennsylvania State U.
Scott Cantor, The Ohio State U.
Ann West, Internet2/Educause
Paul Hill, MIT
Michael Gettes, MIT
Renee Frost, Internet2
Neal McBurnett, Internet2
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2
Steven Carmody, Brown U.
Scotty Logan, Stanford
David Wasley, independent
Steve Olshansky, Internet2 (scribe)

**Recent meetings**

- JA-SIG UnConference
October 6-8, 2008, Madison WI
http://www.ja-sig.org/
There were meetings between key developers from the Shibboleth and CAS
and uPortal projects. Tom and Scott attended.
A project for Shibboleth-enabling uPortal has been started, focusing on
proxy authentication. Public information about this, including a mailing
list, is forthcoming in the near future. Timeline is still being
developed, and some of the work will be done by a vendor funded by U.
Chicago (i.e. not by the Shibboleth development team).

There was discussion about various interactions with the Kuali (KIM and
Coeus) and Sakai projects related to Shibboleth support.

- Fall Internet2 Member Meeting
October 13-16, 2008, New Orleans
http://events.internet2.edu/2008/fall-mm/
Many MACE members attended.

Ed Seidel, NSF OCI director, included a slide in his keynote
presentation promoting InCommon participation for eScience. There is
some work underway with OCI helping them to develop standard language
requiring scalable authentication (e.g. federated IdM) for future
solicitations.

There were some positive interactions between MACE members and some of
the Internet2 advisory council members.

* Upcoming Meetings*

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

- Fall EuroCAMP
November 5-6, 2008, Athens
Brendan Bellina, USC (MACE-Dir chair) will be attending.
http://www.terena.org/activities/eurocamp/nov08/

- IETF
November 16-21, 2008, Minneapolis
http://www.ietf.org/meetings/73/
Representatives from the OAuth effort will be in attendance. RL “Bob” is
working with ISOC on assembling clueful and interested e-mail admins
just prior to the meeting, toward promoting a DKIM experiment.

There are discussions underway about federated identity and SIP, more to
come on this as it develops.

- TF-EMC2/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
Student identity lifecycle will be the topic. More on this will be
forthcoming as info is available.

- June 2009 CAMPs/ITANA
Discussion is underway about how to organize and align these 2 meetings.
Ann will be summarizing the discussions about options and distributing
it to the MACE list.

**Discussion**
- MACE Program
RL "Bob" is working on a document outlining the Internet2 middleware
work which will serve as a briefing for advisory council members. There
was discussion about the value of bringing liaisons to other key
projects into MACE, and consensus was that this is a positive thing to
consider going forward.

- Next steps for Signet/privilege management
The change in direction and upcoming cessation of Internet2 funding for
the Stanford development work on the project was detailed in a mail from
RL "Bob" to the Signet-dev mailing list last week. There was a recent
indication that one large university is planning to deploy the existing
Signet product, but does not have the wherewithal to contribute back to
the project.

The biweekly Signet conference calls will continue for now, discussing
future MACE direction for privilege management within the Internet2
Middleware Initiative (I2MI).

There was discussion about AuthZ work happening under the Kuali IdM
(KIM) project, and potential alignment with MACE activity in this area.

MACE considers AuthZ/Privilege Management to be an important activity
for the R&E community, and how it will be supported ongoing is a subject
of continuing discussion.

- InCommon Silver
The InCommon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has completed work on
the Silver (LoA2) profile, and Silver will be moving from beta to
production in the near future.

GSA will be holding a meeting Nov. 5, 2008, discussing future direction
for eAuth, and the InCommon Silver profile will likely be a useful
addition to the conversation.