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The MACE-Dir-Groups subgroup has concluded its activities for the present, and all work has migrated to the Grouper project. Please contact Steve Olshansky, Grouper flywheel, with questions or comments.
For easy reference the products of this workgroup are:
The groups subgroup
of MACE-Dir
will establish best
practices in the use
of core middleware
to meet the authorization
and messaging needs
of applications. The
group's initial foci
were 1) the conduct
of a survey of several
organizations' practices
in this area and 2)
investigations into
meaningful definitions
of, and productive
ways of representing
and operating on,
"groups", "affiliations",
"roles", and "correlations".
As a consequence
of those initial investigations,
it was decided to
develop Grouper, an
open source toolkit
for managing groups.
Grouper is designed
to function as the
core element of a
common infrastructure
for managing group
information across
integrated applications
and repositories.
Grouper combines multiple
sources of group information,
both automated and
manual, in managing
memberships and other
group information
in a Groups Registry,
a central information
asset complementary
to a site's Person
Registry.
Grouper supports several
modes of distributed
group management:
- per-group assignment
of membership update
privilege
- per-group assignment
of administration
of all forms of
access
- per-namespace
assignment of entitlement
to create groups
within the namespace
In addition to basic
group management and
search capabilities,
Grouper's design includes
support for subgroups,
abstracted interfaces
for privilege management
and for subject lookup,
membership defined
by set theoretic combinations
of other groups, aging
of groups and memberships,
integration with Signet,
and more advanced
search capabilities.
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Minutes
of MACE-Dir-Groups
(aka Grouper) Conference Calls
The minutes have been relocated
to the Grouper page
Mailing
Lists (See Grouper
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Draft
Documents
These documents are
works in progress.
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on the status of these
documents, see the
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For reference see
also the Internet2
Document Library.
Presentations
Authority
Process & Policy
- Sandra Senti, Stanford,
NMI Advanced CAMP
9-July-2003 [HTML]
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