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[Ken Klingenstein <>]

Folks,
  I can't make the call if there is one, unfortunately, but there are  
still further things afoot to at least share with folks:
	The next stonesoup meeting (aka common solutions), an in-person  
meeting at UCSD in January, is built on three long (1/2 day)  
workshops. Two of them are identity management/silver/affiliates and  
collaboration management platforms (COmanage, Google wave, Adobe  
Connect, Sharepoint). Michael got us into this, but that it was a top  
vote getter is a sign of the broad interest.
	I think it is reasonable now (given the generally positive InCommon  
future steps recently) to have the audacity of hope around the service  
that Michael is crafting. That hope should shape out a plan for how  
would we "pilotize" the service (in terms of dreaming a support model  
- not necessarily TSG- and who would be the pilots for the service.).  
We know of at least one reasonable customer, the GENI PMO, and the  
VO's I've been working (though only one would want a service rather  
than a framework.)
	My answer to Michael's question of what are we selling depends on to  
whom :) (I am marketing.) iPlant and GENI want a service. LIGO wants  
to understand what we're doing and build their own, starting from  
their strength in Grouper. OOI wants the framework like LIGO, and then  
may build their own custom appliance for some odd architecture they  
have. When we get to the conversations with NSF CIO, I think they will  
want the framework. (Where framework means - user supplies LDAP store,  
installs the piece parts of COmanage, pick up some apps from the list  
of domesticated ones, go install them in their COmanage configuration,  
reads how to domesticate some of their local apps and does so, grabs  
our spectacular GUI :) etc. -).  Is that reasonable?
  As for the sessions at the member meeting, I think the split that  
Heather suggested -
"Monday doing a demo and discussion of the collaboration space in  
general, and wednesday inviting use cases and talking about design?"  
is good - we may have more geeks on Monday and CIO's on Wed and so a  
demo might be good on Wed as well.
 And the COmanage use case for the Tao workshop (see http://middleware.internet2.edu/tao-of-attributes/ 
 and note it is webcast if you are interested). represents COmanage  
as an attribute authority death star, spewing attributes into IdP's  
and SP's and portals...
  I've got the regular COmanage call next Friday on my calendar.
                        Ken