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[Tom Barton <>]

I'll freshen that strand of my conversations with Chad and with Steve 
Masover.

Although an appliance package is probably right for the early going, 
Bamboo is looking for a services orientation and composability. Perhaps 
the comanage roadmap should identify some point at which comanage will 
sport WS interfaces supplying appropriate identity services to 
integrated applications. Kinda like OSU BioMed had to make GridGrouper 
out of grouper, only now we've got more going for us.

Hmm, they also wrote Introduce to integrate apps with caGrid. Maybe 
comanage should aim to do something like that, but working a bit further 
up the stack?

Maybe we can figure out what this means in June.

Tom

Ken Klingenstein wrote:
> All,
>   I has a call with Chris Mackie of Mellon this afternoon, who is trying 
> to help a set of learned societies form their own collaboration 
> environments that exploit "web 2.0" tools, without a dependency on 
> stodgy academic orgs that don't touch this stuff or campuses that don't 
> see the grant dollars in such groups.  Very early in their proposal 
> process, looking for, it turns out, the comanage vm appliance, likely in 
> a cloud environment. Two things that Chris pressed me on were the 
> international interfederation peering, since these societies are very 
> international, and provisioning capability inside comanage for accounts, 
> in case a large number of users are not in federated institutions 
> (though all are academics and will soon be in those federated 
> clutches...). Chris will likely funnel these groups initially through 
> Bamboo.
>   The action item on this is for Tom to continue to touch base with Chad 
> regularly, and for Chad to know such an appliance will be out there if 
> there is a knock on his door...
>         Ken