**MACE-Dir Call 23-March-2009**

**Attending**

Brendan Bellina, USC (chair)

Etan Weintraub, Johns Hopkins U.

Tom Barton, U. Chicago

Ann West, Internet2

Steve Olshansky, Internet2 (scribe)

Outstanding surveys:

Test Accounts survey: <http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=SlFF6wbLYPXA7rZjaerpzA_3d_3d>

Group Usage survey: <http://spaces.internet2.edu/display/macedir/Survey+on+Group+Usage>

**New Action Items**

[AI] (All) who will be attending the MACE-Dir session at the I2MM and have ideas for the presentation, contact Brendan

*Carryover Action Items*

[AI] (Mike) review the LocalDomainPerson survey results and the Shibboleth attribute naming documentation with an eye toward useful attributes to generalize, as a reference for naming guidelines and base attributes to propose.

http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/localsurvey.html

http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/docs/internet2-mace-dir-localdomainperson-200505.html

[AI] (RL "Bob") will craft a survey on use of the mail attribute and possible need for additional email attributes.

[AI] (Brendan) will poll the mailing list for feedback on the use of name fields, and whether they have had the need to extend eduPerson locally with additional name fields.

[AI] (Brendan) will coordinate with the leaders of the Educause IdM Constituent Group, toward the goal of polling that group along with MACE-Dir for feedback on the use of commercial and open-source IdM products.

**Discussion**

Etan has completed moving the LDIFs into the wiki, and this is now linked from the old page.

http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/schema/

links to

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/macedir/LDIFs

- (Etan) Update on Group Usage survey

There are now 14 responses to the survey, and Etan will send out a "last call" mail to the MACE-Dir and Educause IdM lists. We agreed to send an announcement of the survey to the MACE-paccman and Grouper-users mailing lists, with a deadline for responses of Friday 3-April-2009. Etan will then begin his analysis of the data for presentation.

- Next call will be Monday 6-April 4:30 PM EDT (GMT-4).