Middleware Announcements

[Renee Frost <>]

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past few years, the need for consistent middleware has grown and
Internet2's activities in this important arena have increased
accordingly. In this message, we would like to highlight some of the many
sessions related to middleware that you will find at our upcoming Fall
2003 Internet2 Member Meeting in Indianapolis, to be held October 13-16.
We would appreciate you forwarding this message as broadly as you
wish.

As usual, our meeting will feature a track on Middleware. In addition,
you will find middleware-related sessions embedded in several of the
other tracks, as well as Working Group (WG) and Project Team meetings and
Birds of a Feather sessions.  The Middleware Working Groups also
will be well represented at the two lunchtime events: Lunchapalooza and
WG Poster Sessions.

Middleware sessions begin on Monday, October 13, with a tutorial at 8:15
am on "Deploying a Collaboration Infrastructure Across State and
Higher Education Federations", followed at 1 pm by a related
tutorial on "Using Shibboleth to Support Credential Exchange".
Other middleware-related sessions on Monday include:

• the MACE-Instant Messaging WG at 8:15 am
• the MACE-CourseID Project at 10 am
• the MACE-DIR Groups Project at 2 pm
• a Middleware Diagnostics Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at 3:30 pm
• the VidMid-Videoconferencing WG at 4:30 pm

Middleware sessions continue on Tuesday with

• the Shibboleth WG at 8 am
• the VidMid-Video on Demand WG at 8:15 am
• the PKI WG at 5:45 pm
• the Directories WG at 5:45 pm

The Middleware Track officially begins Tuesday afternoon with the
"Strategies for Directory Deployment - Centralized, Distributed,
Federated, and Decentralized" panel at 1:15 pm, followed at 3 pm by
"PKI - Recent Activities" and "Directories - Recent
Developments" at 4:30 pm.  Middleware is also a key element of
the Advanced Video Applications track session at 3 pm on Tuesday, which
presents a "Demonstration of Directory-Enable Video and Voice over
IP", featuring a number of systems created as part of the ViDe.Net
Middleware initiative.

The Middleware Track continues on Wednesday with the following 
sessions:

• NSF Middleware Initiative - Building for the Future, 8:45 am
• Shibboleth Case Studies, 10:30 am
• Shibboleth and Federations, 1:15 pm
• Authorization and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), 3 pm
• Enabling Collaborative Applications with Middleware, 4:30 pm

Also, please note that the session in the Advanced Applications
track at 10:30 am on Wednesday has a strong focus on middleware, entitled
"Taking Grids Out of the Lab and Onto the Campus" and
addressing work of the NSF Middleware Initiative Integration Testbed, and
the session in the Medical/Health Sciences Applications track at 3 pm on
Wednesday will present "Developments in Medical
Middleware".

Two more middleware sessions are scheduled for Thursday, October 16: a
session in the Middleware Track on "Advanced Directory Services and
Applications" at 8:45 am and a session at the same time in the
Advanced Applications Track on "Technical and Policy Issues in
Identity Management and WebISO".

Since there is no longer a limit to the number of people who can attend
an Internet2 Member Meeting from each member organization, this is an
excellent opportunity to bring others who are interested, but have not
been able to attend previously, so feel free to forward this message
broadly. We look forward to seeing you in Indianapolis!

 



-----------------------------------------------------------mw-announce-+
For list utilities, archives, subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. please visit the
ListProc web interface at 

    http://archives.internet2.edu/

-----------------------------------------------------------mw-announce--