*MACE Conference Call*
April 4, 2005

*Attendees*

Bob Morgan (chair) - Washington
Ton Verschuren - SURFnet
Keith Hazelton - Wisconsin
Steven Carmody - Brown
Jim Jokl - Virginia
Scott Cantor - OSU
Lynn McRae - Stanford
Renee Frost - Michigan/Internet2
David Wasley - independent
Ken Klingenstein - Colorado/Internet2
Diego Lopez - RedIRIS
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Bob and Steven reviewed last week's RIT Mellon retreat. There was discussion of MIT's Open Courseware, using the EduCommons tools to support similar efforts at other schools, and how much interest there is in such efforts. There was also a discussion of W3C's RDF and prospects for use of RDF with Sakai. Many of the Mellon-funded projects are at a Shibboleth-like level of development -- past the first round of funding, and now confronting issues of how to manage growth. The last afternoon of the meeting was devoted to Educore; this is shaping up to be a large project (100+ FTE), aimed at higher education in general and offering a range of services and support models. Presentations from the retreat are at http://rit.mellon.org:8080/dev/retreat/2005/materials/.

Current and upcoming meetings:
- Mark Poepping is attending the April 4-5 EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference (http://www.educause.edu/sec05).
- Scott and Bob are scheduled to speak on Shibboleth and E-Auth at Digital ID World in May; see http://www.digitalidworld.com/conference/2005/.
- TERENA Networking Conference 2005 will be June 6-9 in Poznan, Poland; see http://www.terena.nl/conferences/tnc2005/. TF-EMC2 will meet June 5. Diego noted that a large electronic ID project is getting underway with European Commission funding; Ken noted that the US Federal E-Authentication group is planning to coordinate with them.
- Registration for the summer CAMPs is at http://www.educause.edu/camp052 and http://www.educause.edu/camp053.

The new international middleware coordination group now has a name: Middleware Investors for Collaboration and Education, or MICE. [AI] Ken will send MACE the draft MICE documents, including an initial membership list.

USPerson will be included in phases 3 and 4 of the Shibboleth/E-Auth pilot; see http://members.internet2.edu/newsletter.cfm?date=2005-04-01#166 for more on phases 3 and 4. [AI] Ken will send Ton the work order for phases 3 and 4. Diego and Ton noted the strong bias in Spain and the Netherlands in favor of basing all transactions on an electronic ID card; development of eduPerson-like schema is needed to support more federated, privacy-friendly approaches. The TF-EMC2 Schema Harmonisation Committee (SCHAC; http://www.terena.nl/tech/task-forces/tf-emc2/schac.html) is hoping to present its initial proposal at the Poznan meeting.

The group briefly discussed plans for the new InCommon-Tech group. [AI] Ken will get started on recruitment for the new InCommon-Tech group. Bob suggested that this might be a good place to consider attribute issues.

*Action Items*

[AI] Ken will send MACE the draft MICE documents, including an initial membership list.
[AI] Ken will send Ton the work order for phases 3 and 4.
[AI] Ken will get started on recruitment for the new InCommon-Tech group.