MACE Call 3-March-2008

*Attending*
RL "Bob" Morgan, U. Washington (chair)
Jim Jokl, U. Virginia
Nate Klingenstein, Internet2
Renee Frost, Internet2
Scotty Logan, Stanford
Leif Johansson, Stockholm University / SUNET
Tom Barton, U. Chicago
David Wasley, independent
Rodney McDuff, U. Queensland (AU)
Ann West, Internet2
Scott Cantor, Ohio State U.
Steve Olshansky, Internet2 (scribe)

**Discussion**
* Recent Meetings*
- Mellon RIT
Ken and Jens attended this meeting last week. Mellon is focused on the arts and humanities as much as ever.

- CNI author workshop
Steven attended this, see his report on the list 28-Feb.

**Upcoming meetings**

- IDTrust
March 4-6, 2008, Gaithersburg MD
http://middleware.internet2.edu/idtrust/2008/

- IETF
March 9-14, 2008, Philadelphia PA
http://www.ietf.org/meetings/71-IETF.html

- Spring I2MM
April 21-23, 2008, Arlington VA
http://events.internet2.edu/2008/spring-mm/
The program will be posted soon. As always there will be a good selection of middleware-related sessions. Renee will send out a list when it is available.

- JA-SIG
April 27-30, 2008, St. Paul MN
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/
Ann is on the program committee.. Tom and Scott will be doing a session about IdM for developers. There will be track sessions on Shibboleth 2.0 and possibly Grouper.

- EuroCAMP
May 7-8, 2008, Stockholm Sweden
http://www.terena.org/activities/eurocamp/may08/

- Shib CAMP
June 2008, Ann Arbor MI
This will be a Shib 2.0 InstallFest, and will include tracks for both newbies and upgraders, and will also include a “train-the-trainer” session.

- CSG
May 14-16 2008, Ann Arbor MI
http://www.stonesoup.org/

- TERENA+REFEDS
http://www.terena.org/activities/refeds/
18 May 2008, Bruges, Belgium

- ITANA+AdvancedCAMP
ITANA
June 18, 2008, Minneapolis MN
http://www.itana.org/

AdvancedCAMP
June 19-20, 2008, Minneapolis MN
(Ann will send URL for AdvancedCAMP when it is available)

The AdvancedCAMP topic will likely be related to service registries and/or ESB, but is still being refined. The program committee is being assembled now.

- Inter-federation Workshop
Information about this workshop will go out to the list when it is available.

- Catalyst
June 23-27, 2008, San Diego CA
http://www.catalyst.burtongroup.com/na08/

- AACRAO+IdM
http://www.aacrao.org/
This will be held in conjunction with the AACRAO Tech Meeting. Information about this workshop will go out to the list when it is available.

TF-EMC2
9-10 Jul 2008, Umeå, Sweden
http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-emc2/

**Discussion**
Brendan will be chairing MACE-Dir on a temporary basis while Keith is out on leave.

* Croquet AuthN/Z
http://opencroquet.org/
See recent thread on this topic. More to come on this as it develops.

* RADIUS/SAML
If there is sufficient interest it will taken up within OASIS. The likely outcome is guidance for developers of RADIUS extensions.

* Fluid UI group and Middleware UIs
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/
This topic arose at the Mellon meeting last week. Fluid is a generalized UI improvement activity, and there may be some applicability to the Middleware space. More to come on this as it develops.