Minutes: MACE-Dir call 29-Aug-05
*Participants*
Keith Hazelton, U. Wisconsin - Madison (chair)
RL "Bob" Morgan, U. Washington
Brendan Bellina, USC
Ido Carmi, USC
Bruce Vincent, Stanford
Renee Frost, Internet2
Ann West, EDUCAUSE/Internet2
Paul Hill, MIT
Mark Jones, U. Texas - Houston
Tom Barton, U. Chicago
Todd Piket, Michigan Tech U.
Steve Olshansky, Internet2
Katherine Strojny, Internet2 (scribe)
*Action Items*
[AI] {Tom} will contact Walter Hoehn and Roland Hedberg to discuss the
scoping of work that may be appropriate for the Internet2 Middleware
Initiative (I2MI) to take on, in the areas of metadirectories and
provisioning.
[AI] {Group} Review Brendan's Higher Education Person draft, sent to
the WG list 29-August, and direct comments to the list.
[AI] {SteveO and Brendan} will work offline to get the latest revs of
the Higher Education Person draft posted to the WG website.
*Discussion*
The two agenda items were the Fall 2005 Member Meeting and reviewing
updates to the Higher Education Person (HEP) draft, sent to the list
29-August by Brendan Bellina..
Internet2 Fall Member Meeting:
The group discussed questions about the upcoming fall member meeting,
in Philadelphia September 19-22. The Directory workgroup session
will be first thing Monday morning, followed by the Metadirectory
workgroup session, so people planning to attend these sessions should
arrive Sunday.
A draft schedule of all Middleware-related working group sessions will
be sent out to the list this week. The sessions can also be
viewed by going to the Fall 2005 member meeting page on the Internet2
website, then following the Program link on the side bar.
Individual topics on the Program page have links to content which can
help when planning which sessions to attend.
http://events.internet2.edu/2005/fall-mm/
What is to be accomplished in the Metadirectories BoF vs. track
session? It was determined that the BoF could be used to draft a
statement of work which could then be used as a proposal to MACE.
[AI] {Tom} will contact Walter Hoehn and Roland Hedberg to discuss the
scoping of work that may be appropriate for the Internet2 Middleware
Initiative (I2MI) to take on, in the areas of metadirectories and
provisioning.
What would be accomplished in the Directories BoF? Discussion
included the possibility of reporting on Brendan's work (HEP), the
TERENA SChema Harmonization Committee Project (SCHAC), usPerson, or
related activity in Asia. These details will be ironed out in
direct calls among the presenters. For info on SCHAC, see
http://www.terena.nl/tech/task-forces/tf-emc2/schac.html.
Will there be any activities on Sunday of the member meeting? The
Working Architects Group (WAG) will hold a closed meeting on Sunday
afternoon. Sunday evening there will be a dinner meeting discussing the
plans for documentation and outreach for Grouper and Signet, similar to
what is being done for Shibboleth in terms of strengthening brand,
creating the appropriate documentation, developing web content oriented
for a more general audience, and so forth.
Higher EduPerson (HEP) Draft:
Brendan sought the group's feedback for sections 6.7 through 6.11 of
latest draft of the HEP. The group gave feedback on sections 6.7
(Security Attributes and Keys) and 6.8 (Confidentiality and Attribute
Release). Discussion centered around definitions in the 6.8
overview. The material is timely for a number of locations with
implementations in progress. Remaining sections were not reviewed
during the call due to time limitations.
[AI] {Group} will review Brendan's Higher Education Person draft, and
direct comments to the list.
AI] {SteveO and Brendan} will work offline to get the latest revs of
the Higher Education Person draft posted to the WG website.
Next call will be Monday 12-September 4:30 ET. Agenda and phone bridge
will go out to this list in advance of the call.