Mace CourseID Conference Call November 8th, 2004

[AI] Keith will write a short description of the Example Applications extracted from the scenario documents.
[AI] Keith and Jeanette will map out how to revise the CourseID website.

*Attendees*
Grace Agnew, Rutgers
Tom Barton, U. Chicago
Scott Cantor, OSU
Keith Hazelton, U. Wisconsin
Jeanette Fielden, Internet2
Renee Frost, Internet2

*Discussion*
The NIM R6 release is scheduled for December 6th. Descriptive blurbs are due by Thanksgiving with documents due December 1st.

EduCourse
Tom Barton’s eduCourse draft is located at:
http://middleware.internet2.edu/courseid/docs/draft-internet2-courseID-eduCourse-01.html
There is one item still in process, the self-referential association arrow on the section object class to allow subsections. Tom will finish the document before December 1st.

Keith asked about the open diamond symbol and its meaning as part of whole part relations, and would it be better to not use the diamonds? Tom felt that a graphical representation is preferable and felt more research is needed on UML symbology. Tom will try both representations and see which works better.

Are LDAP bindings the next step? Likely, though it is not clear when that would happen. It would not be the responsibility of the courseID group to create these.

If new attributes are created that we would like carriable in both SAML assertions and saved in an LDAP directory, are they poisoned by using OID’s? If the LDAP profile is going to be used pervasively for eduPerson there will be a large number of OID’s regardless and software will be needed to handle it since OID’s are not user friendly. The profile could be adopted for internal use when necessary and other existing approaches used otherwise.

Keith would like to take the scenarios from the following three documents:
http://usfs2.us.ohio-state.edu/MACE/draft-cantor-courseid-usecase-00.html
http://middleware.internet2.edu/courseID/docs/draft-internet2-mace-courseid-scenarios-00.html
http://middleware.internet2.edu/courseID/docs/draft-beshears-courseid-simple-00.html
and draw scenarios/example applications from those documents, and describe how these scenarios might be accomplished; where attributes are assumed to be in the LDAP store.

The Examples of Applications are:

Just in time provisioning.
Identifier associated with a set of materials for teaching.
Collaborative access to a repository.
Simple co-taught course.

CourseID Website
There was agreement to remove expired documents from the website and rearrange the site for user navigation.