**MACE Call 6-July-2009**

**Attending**

RL "Bob" Morgan, U. Washington (chair)

Diego Lopez, RedIRIS

Renee Shuey, The Penn State U.

Steven Carmody, Brown U.

Michael Gettes, MIT

Ann West, Internet2

Ken Klingenstein, Internet2

Paul Hill, MIT

Jim Jokl, U. Virginia

Mark Poepping, CMU

Keith Hazelton, U. Wisconsin

Tom Barton, U. Chicago

David Wasley, independent

Scott Cantor, The Ohio State U.

Renee Frost, Internet2

Steve Olshansky, Internet2 (scribe)

*Carryover Action Item*

[AI] (Leif) will send the IETF technical trust info to the MACE list.

[AI] (Ken and Mark) will distribute some information on trust anchors in the context of dynamic network configuration in GENI testbed, as well as for general access control.

[AI] (Ken) will circulate some meeting notes from the last TERENA/ REFEDS meetings.

*Upcoming Meetings*

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/MACECalendar/MACE+Calendar

- IETF

July 26-31, 2009, Stockholm, Sweden

http://www.ietf.org/meetings/75/

- Catalyst

July 27-31, 2009, San Diego, CA

http://catalyst.burtongroup.com/

The Concordia Group, which is shifting from Liberty to Kantara, will be holding a full-day meeting.

RL "Bob" is co-shepherding the OSIS group, and they are looking at all 4 prevalent IAM technologies: OpenID, SAML, InfoCard, WS-Federation

- Tao of Attribute workshop

September 28-29, 2009, Washington DC

- Fall Internet2 Member Meeting

Oct. 5-8, 2009, San Antonio, TX

http://events.internet2.edu/2009/fall-mm/

There have been 16 middleware track session proposals submitted, which is a new record, and the program committee is now evaluating them. Many non-usual suspects are represented, which is obviously a good thing...

- DIDW

September 14-16, 2009, Las Vegas NV

http://public.cxo.com//conferences//index.html?conferenceID=51

- Jasig Unconference

http://www.jasig.org/jasig-conferences-events

- Fall EuroCamp

Date TBD (likely late Fall), Budapest Hungary

http://www.terena.org/activities/eurocamp/

This will be similar to Advanced CAMP. There is growing momentum around aligning IAM/security efforts across projects...

**Discussion**

* Internet2

- The next Internet2 board meeting is Wednesday 8-July, at which the InCommon future report will be presented, among other topics.

- Jack Suess is now chair of AMSAC.

- Randy Frank, the new CTO, is now on board.

- Strategic planning - there are now priorities attached to the activities.

* more MICE

Greater coordination in software development among various prominent EU/US R&E organizations is one of the primary goals.

* ACAMP follow-ups: global multi-project identity umbrella?

There was consensus that coordination among the various organizations/projects represented (Jasig, Kuali, Kantara, MACE/Internet2), as a clearinghouse resource for the broad community, would be a good thing. Jens is working on this...

The question of where this umbrella activity should be homed needs to be addressed soon, and is at the top of the list of the action item conveners. Possibilities being considered are MACE/Internet2, Jasig, and Kantara. More to come as this develops.

* Geneva testing venue(s)

Integration with, and testing of, Geneva is of growing interest. There are similar conversations under way with Oracle, re: SAML access to Oracle/PeopleSoft ERP apps.

* CILogon engagement?

http://www.cilogon.org/

Announcement: http://bit.ly/olnyJ

This NSF sponsored project would seem to be a logical thing for MACE to be involved with. More to come as this develops.

* The Tao of Attributes workshop

has worked out a potential conflict with an OASIS meeting which had been set for the same dates, but has now been moved. Use cases are now being developed for the workshop...