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[Jim Leous <>]

Hi folks,

Bad connectivity yesterday (I should have done it from the Kellogg 
Center before I left).  A couple of things.  Mike Grady from UofI said 
that he will push for us doing something CIC wide (he, Renee Shuey, Jim 
Green, Matt Kolb and a couple of others we know are on the CIC IAM 
group, so that might be the place to start).  He would especially like 
for the CIC instance to exist in the AWS space.  That's what the meat of 
my talk was about: how Chris has created/deployed public Amazon Machine 
Images (AMIs).  Mike and a few other CIC institutions are having a hard 
time hammering out a contract with Amazon.  He believes that since Penn 
State is doing it, they only have to agree with Penn State (which they 
do for most things ;-).  So when Renee, Chris, and I can get together, 
maybe we can plan the instance of COmanage for CIC.  By the way, Renee 
has been pushing for this for a while.  The CIC IAM group is a long 
standing VO. There are others like the CIC research computing group that 
are in the IT purview and even more in libraries and financial, but we 
should start with those folks we know.

I included Michael Pelikan on this, because Jim Green from MSU spoke in 
the same session as me about their Shibb deployment.  They have a 
situation where the Registrar's Office maintains an additional attribute 
authority (a situation where they get attributes from their 
administrative computing and also from the Registrar's Office).  The RO 
serves up eduCourse attributes to a provisioning system.  I told Matt 
Kolb and Jim Green that Michael P is proposing some mods to eduCourse.  
He said that wouldn't mess them up because they would probably continue 
to use that subset defined by the current eduCourse until they could 
evaluate if they needed the newer attributes.  Interesting.  He was 
under the impression that Chicago used eduCourse.  Do you Tom?

Sorry this is late, but I was pretty sleep deprived by this trip (and 
other changes in my life lately ;-).

Jim

I've also included

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Jim Leous
ITS Emerging Technologies Group
Information Technology Services
Penn State