*PKI Labs Conference Call*
June 10, 2002

*Attendees*

Neal McBurnett (convener) - Internet2

Sean Smith - Dartmouth
Bob Brentrup - Dartmouth

Eric Norman - Wisconsin

Peter Honeyman - Michigan
Carl Ellison - Intel
Bob Morgan - Washington
Ellen Vaughan - Internet2

Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

The group reviewed some of its outstanding action items:

[20-May - All will send Sean recommendations for papers from the 1st Annual PKI Research Workshop that should be included in a special journal issue Sean is planning with Ravi Sandhu.]
Only one person has responded so far; Sean reiterated his request. The journal in question is www.acm.org/tissec/.

[20-May - All who have suggestions on the membership of, or division of tasks within, the program committee for the 2nd Annual PKI Research Workshop, or who are interested in serving on it, will contact Sean.]
Done; Carl Ellison is the program chair for next year.

[20-May - Sean will look into the sponsorship situation for the 2nd Annual PKI Research Workshop.]
Done; all previous sponsors will repeat, and NIST will host again.

There was a short discussion of the CDBTPA. Carl reminded everyone to write their Congresspeople; Neal recommended an amusing animated video at http://action.eff.org/tinseltown/. Bob Morgan noted that at last week's TERENA meeting both the opening and closing keynotes -- by Lawrence Lessig and John Naughton respectively -- were about CDBTPA-related issues; the Europeans expect that the direction the EU will take on IPR will be largely determined by how things turn out in the US. Neal noted the launch of Lessig's Creative Commons project (www.creativecommons.org), and Bob M. noted that there has been discussion of Internet2 becoming an early content contributor for Creative Commons.

Sean gave short updates on his students at the Dartmouth PKI Lab; all are either gone for the summer or gone for good. Bob Brentrup noted that the Lab now has a new space and two new hires; he's focusing on getting everything ready in the new space so they can put lots of students to work in the fall. Bob B. is also retrofitting Dartmouth's personal ID system to use certs (rather than Kerberos, which has problems with firewalls); if successful, this will get a lot of people using PKI and serve as a foundation for other things. Dartmouth is also moving forward with the PKI Lite S/MIME project and a CREN access control project. Sean noted that the building that houses the Dartmouth Lab will be torn down in two years, providing extra motivation for speedy progress.

At Wisconsin, the med-center S/MIME project continues, though Eric noted he has yet to get any feedback on usability. Eric has been looking into Protege (http://protege.stanford.edu), a spreadsheet tool for building ontologies for knowledgebases, and expects that it will prove useful.

Much of the call was devoted to reviewing Ben's draft summary of the PKI Research Workshop. [AI] Ben will revise the PKI Research Workshop summary, taking into account the discussion on today's call and any other comments he receives in the next week or so.

The next PKI Labs call will take place at 4pm Eastern on July 8, per the regular schedule.

*Action Items*

[AI] 10-June - Ben will revise the PKI Research Workshop summary, taking into account the discussion on today's call and any other comments he receives in the next week or so.
[AI] 20-May - All will send Sean recommendations for papers from the 1st Annual PKI Research Workshop that should be included in a special journal issue Sean is planning with Ravi Sandhu.
[AI] 18-December - Bob Moskowitz and Carl will further discuss ways of increasing the user-friendliness of using raw public keys to set up devices.
[AI] 13-August - Bob Moskowitz will forward the list email on PKI work at Fannie Mae.
[AI] 4-June - Bob Moskowitz will send the list information on Federal work related to attribute certs.