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[Ken Klingenstein <>]

Folks,
  This note is a follow-up to conversations that many of us had at  
the Internet2 meeting last week about how to re-structure the  
conversations given the growing interest and diversity of participants.
  We agreed to separate the discussions into two places -  
domesticating apps versus comanage itself as appliance/service.
	1. There is broad interest (now including OZ from Duke, the  
Australians, the French Sympa work, etc) in domesticating apps, even  
if we use different technologies (LDAP, SAML, etc) for domestication.   
That "work group" will be called CollabIdM.  It will have a list and a  
wiki (managed, gasp, by me using Comanage.) and maybe a netmeeting.   
Content will focus on domestication, such as following up on the good  
conversation we had about where these growing number of CMP choices  
need to be consistent, building some kind of registry service to share  
domesticated apps, etc.
We will set up monthly real-time calls to work for the Euros as well  
as the US, and wish Australia well, sigh. We'll fold the existing  
occasional international collab activity into this WG.
	2. The Comanage on and off week conversations will merge into  
comanage-dev, discussing both the COmanage service and the appliance,  
with a bit of overlap with the domestication WG as we talk about apps,  
but not much. (when we talk about the apps, we may be talking about  
using them as well, versus just plumbing.) This "work group" will  
inherit the comanage-dev name and this list and the usual call slot of  
every other Friday at 2 pm et.
  Some of us will want to be on both calls/lists, but many won't.  
We'll try to separate folks manually via the Steveo Infinite Database  
into COmanage/CollabIdm/Both categories and begin to disentangle the  
lists, etc. For those going to the CollabIdM WG, we'll ask you to  
register at the CMP co.internet2.edu, just the way we want the world  
to work.
  We can confirm this plan on the dev call tomorrow.
                        Ken