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Monday, Sept 28

Time Topic Leader
8:30-8:45 am Welcome, Goals, Agenda mods

Peter Alterman, NIH
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2
8:45-9:30 am Presentation of several illustrative use cases Gerald Beuchelt, MITRE
Anthony Cieri, Cieri Consulting Group Inc.
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2
9:45-10:15 am Summary of other use cases

Ken Klingenstein, Internet2
10:45-11:00 am Terminology and Taxonomy David Wasley, Internet2
 
Moving Attributes around

11:00-11:45 am Attribute aggregation discussion
  • Static aggregation – when/where/how
  • Dynamic aggregation – discovery
  • Push/pull strategies
  • Mixing transports -- e.g. SAML and attribute certs - issues
  • Presentation: Attribute Aggregation (PDF)

 RL "Bob" Morgan, University of Washington
11:45-12:15 pm Account linking requirements and concerns
  • Where to store
  • When to do the attribute transfer
  • Presentation: Account Linking (PDF)

 Scott Cantor, The Ohio State University
 

Assigning attributes values

1:30-2:15 pm Mark Wahl, Microsoft
2:15-3:15 pm Source of authority
  • Tracking the Source of Authority – Needs and Tools
  • Delegating authority – Needs and Tools
  • The concept of LOA for attributes
  • Presentation: Sources of Authority Discussion (PDF)

 Chris Louden, Protiviti

3:45-4:30 pm
User Interfaces for the Ecosystem
Don Schmidt, Microsoft
4:00-4:45 pm Logging and audit, revocation Santosh Chokani, CygnaCom Solutions
4:45-5:00 pm Wrap Up Peter Alterman, NIH
Ken Klingenstein, Internet2

Tuesday, Sept 29

Time Topic Leader
8:00-8:15 am First day wrap-up/second day orientation

Ken Klingenstein, Internet2
 
Policy, Privacy and Secrecy

8:15-8:45 am Using attributes for access controls

  
8:45-9:30 am IdP/SP PDP discussions

  • Technical and policy consequences of PDP at each
  • Requirements for query languages
  • Managing downstream use of data – policy versus technology controls
  • Other requirements
  • Presentation: Attributes and Providers (PDF)

 RL "Bob" Morgan, University of Washington
10:00-10:45 am hData - a new approach to simple exchange of health records
  • Simplified EHR data architecture
  • Granular access to medical records through REST APIs
  • Discovery through XRD, access control through OAuth
  • Presentation: hData
  • Project hData website

 Gerald Beuchelt, MITRE
10:45-11:30 am Understanding the Ecosystem
  • Are the models reasonable?
  • Do they capture the business needs?
  • Is the extension of the ecosystem to other use cases (e.g. self-asserted attributes in social networking) plausible?
  • Presentation: Ecosystem Challenges (PDF)
  • Presentation: Attribute Schemas (PDF)

 Paul Trevithik, Parity Communications
 

Moving Forward

1:00-1:45 pm Policy Issues
  • Handling liability/indemnification
  • Adjudication processes
  • Distributing responsibility across the ecosystem
  • Distributing risk across the ecosystem
  • Reidentification issues

Mike Nelson, Georgetown University
1:45-2:30 pm Group discussion items
  • Is there a scoping of the “federal” or “government” attribute ecosystem that would serve as a paradigm, provide uniform policy and technology standards ala 800-63,…
  • Cross agency coordination on schema, mappings, etc?
  • What are the major gaps in protocol/standards development?
  • Where are the appropriate places to do that work?
  • Internationalization issues

RL "Bob" Morgan, University of Washington
2:30-3:00 pm Next Steps and Action Items Ken Klingenstein, Internet2

For more information, contact Steve Olshansky <steveo@internet2.edu>, Internet2 Middleware and Security Flywheel.

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