*MACE Conference Call*
January 8, 2007

*Attendees*

Bob Morgan (chair) - Washington
Leif Johansson - Stockholm/SUNET
Michael Gettes - independent
Renee Frost - Michigan/Internet2
Ken Klingenstein - Colorado/Internet2
Steve Carmody - Brown
Scott Cantor - OSU
Tom Barton - Chicago
Steve Olshansky - Internet2
Nate Klingenstein - Internet2
Neal McBurnett - Internet2
Rodney McDuff - Queensland
David Wasley - independent
Jim Jokl - Virginia
Ton Verschuren - SURFnet
Mark Poepping - Carnegie Mellon
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

The January 3-5 CSG meeting (http://www.stonesoup.org/Meeting.last) included an appeal from Tom Dopirak for support for OpenAFS; prospects for this appear to be poor. Jim Phelps discussed enterprise work in ITANA that may parallel work in MACE; Bob is tracking this.

Proposals for SDCI (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07503/nsf07503.htm) are due January 22. Ken noted that the Internet2 Middleware Initiative proposal will stress our interest in coordinating VO work with others overseas. He expects there to be strong interest in the VO work in the medical community.

Bob noted that RadSec is approaching production status in eduroam. Leif noted that until now eduroam has been secured only end-to-end via EAP; RadSec (Radius over TLS) will secure it hop-by-hop.

Upcoming meetings:
- There's a meeting on reconciling OpenID and SAML the week of January 15; Bob is going, although neither he nor Scott is optimistic about the chances for a rapprochement.
- Keith and Nate are attending SAINT January 15-19; see http://www.net.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/saint2007-middleware/.
- Registration for the February 7-9 Authentication Roadmap CAMP (http://www.educause.edu/CAMP071) is approaching 100.
- Scott Cantor, Kim Cameron, and Dick Hardt are among the speakers at the TTI Vanguard Identity & Trust meeting, February 21-22 in Dallas. See http://www.ttivanguard.com/conference/2007/dallas.html.
- IETF meets March 18-23 in Prague; see http://www.ietf.org/meetings/68-IETF.html.
- TF-EMC2 meets March 28-29 in Florence; watch http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-emc2/ for details.
- The next EuroCAMP will take place April 17-18 at the University of Helsinki; see http://www.terena.org/events/details.php?event_id=887.
- The 6th Annual PKI Research Workshop is April 17-19 in Gaithersburg, MD. The theme is "Applications-Driven PKI (It's The Apps, Stupid!)"; Neal (neal@bcn.boulder.co.us) is taking suggestions for panels and keynotes. Neal stressed that the workshop is about "using public key technology for security decisions", not just traditional X.509 PKI. See http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki07/.
- Tom is on the program committee for the April 23-25 Internet2 Member Meeting (http://events.internet2.edu/2007/spring-mm/); he and Renee are working on middleware topics for the meeting.
- There will be a CAMP and Advanced CAMP June 25-29 in Portland, Oregon; Renee (rwfrost@internet2.edu) is taking suggestions for topics. Scott noted that there will be plenty of advanced Shibboleth topics to talk about, given all the work planned for future versions. Bob noted that "the attribute economy" has become a prominent buzzphrase.
- Rodney noted that planning is underway for eResearch Australasia 2007, which will take place June 26-29 at the University of Queensland. See http://www.middleware.edu.au/era2007.