MACE-Dir call
April 10, 2006

*Participants*
Keith Hazelton, U. Wisconsin - Madison (chair)
Walter Hoehn, U. Memphis
Roland Hedburg, NorduNet
Tom Barton, U. Chicago
Bob Morgan, U. Washington
Scott Cantor, Ohio State U.
Todd Piket, MTU
Brendan Bellina, USC
Will Norris, USC
Ann West, EDUCAUSE/Internet2
Renee Frost, Internet2
Jessica Bibbee, Internet2 (scribe)

New *Action Items*
[AI] {Scott} will work with {SteveO} to post the SAML Attribute Profile document.

Carry-over *Action Items*
[AI] {Keith} will work on the simplifying the URN MACE and OID registry page. (27-Mar-06)
[AI] {Keith} will contact (Walter Hoehn and Jon} about contributing towards requirements. (27-Mar-06)
[AI] {Bob} will email the list with an informative sentence regarding an additional spec. (13-Mar-06)
[AI] {Steven Carmody} will write up use cases on requirements for provisioning systems, and send to {Walter}. (9-Jan-05)

*Discussion*
The Group declared the closure of eduPerson draft 9, which will furthermore be known as eduPerson (200604). [AI] {Scott} will work with {SteveO} to post the SAML Attribute Profile document.

<http://www.nmi-edit.org/eduPerson/draft-internet2-mace-dir-eduperson-latest.html>

<http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/docs/draft-internet2-mace-dir-saml-attributes-latest.pdf>

The Spring Internet2 Member Meeting will take place on April 24-26 in Arlington, VA <http://events.internet2.edu/2006/spring-mm/>. There will be a Directories BoF on Monday morning at 8:30am EST; check the Program for any changes to the schedule.

Roland provided an OM update. Eight universities met last month to work on the new SwAMI initiative <http://www.swami.se/>, and decided to come out with a package 1) that even a small university can "press start" and run, and 2) that can also replace part of the existing structure at a university. SwAMI will focus on ontologies, and does plan to have inter-organization uses across boundaries. As for domains, they will start with consultant- or teacher-types who may be doing cross-work; other types will follow. There will be additional meetings, with the intent to produce code that can be packaged. {Roland} will provide updates as the project evolves; discussion may continue at the I2MM.

{Walter} has created a Nexus wiki <http://nexus.memphis.edu/>; snapshots of the software are available, along with beginnings of a QuickStart and Reference guide. You will also find instructions for subscribing to the <nexus-users@internet2.edu>. Nexus will be a part of NMI R9. University of Oregon has expressed interest, going over code and looking to see what is required for their integration.

The next scheduled MACE-Dir WG call overlaps with the Spring Internet2 Member Meeting and will be cancelled. Therefore, the following MACE-Dir WG call will be held on Monday, May 1, 2006.