Middleware Announcements

[Renee Frost <>]

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CAMPUS ARCHITECTURAL MIDDLEWARE PLANNING (CAMP)
 SHIBBOLETH IMPLEMENTATION WORKSHOP
  June 28-30, 2004 * Broomfield, Colorado
  http://www.educause.edu/conference/nmi/2004/camp042/
 ADVANCED CAMP AUTHORITY ARCHITECTURES WORKSHOP
  June 30-July 2, 2004 * Broomfield, Colorado
  http://www.educause.edu/conference/nmi/2004/camp043/
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SAVE THE DATE for these NMI-EDIT Campus Architectural Middleware
Planning workshops being held this summer.

CAMP SHIBBOLETH IMPLEMENTATION WORKSHOP
June 28-30, 2004 * Broomfield, Colorado
http://www.educause.edu/conference/nmi/2004/camp042/
* OVERVIEW: At this workshop, learn about the planning, policy, and
  federation requirements associated with implementing Shibboleth
  as well as the technical specifics of deploying it.
* AUDIENCE: CIOs, IT architects, directors, technical librarians,
  technical staff, and others concerned with sharing resources among
  institutions
* BACKGROUND: The workshop builds on principles covered in previous
  CAMP workshops. To get the most out of it, you should have a
  conceptual understanding of or direct experience with implementing
  enterprise directory and authentication systems as well as related
  policy and management issues.

ADVANCED CAMP AUTHORITY ARCHITECTURES WORKSHOP
June 30-July 2, 2004 * Broomfield, Colorado
http://www.educause.edu/conference/nmi/2004/camp043/
* OVERVIEW: At this workshop, learn more about how to further leverage
  existing infrastructure to enable institutional sharing of
  definition, policy, and control for both on-campus application and
  off-campus resource-sharing authority requirements. Topics include:
  - development of campus and inter-realm authority architectures and
    related systems
  - privilege management systems and Grouper, an architecture and suite
    of tools to manage groups across applications and user communities
  - policy decision points and enforcement issues
  - enabling authorization for simple applications
* AUDIENCE: IT architects
* BACKGROUND: The workshop builds on information covered at the 2003
  Advanced CAMP on authorization services. To get the most out of it,
  you should be from a campus that has robust enterprise directory and
  central authentication systems and that is on the cusp of
  implementing authorization services.

PRAISE FROM PREVIOUS CAMP PARTICIPANTS
* "Very conducive to networking and collaborating on issues."
* "Good size, right people."
* "The content of the sessions was very useful, interesting, and
  worthwhile."

OTHER MIDDLEWARE RESOURCES
* Review the NMI-EDIT release components at
  http://nsf-middleware.org
* Get started with your implementation by reviewing
  http://www.nmi-edit.org/started/index.html
* Learn more about the Internet2 Middleware Initiative at
  http://middleware.internet2.edu
* Browse EDUCAUSE INFORMATION RESOURCES LIBRARY items on middleware at
  http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/subject_docs.asp?Term_ID=285
* Participate in the MIDDLEWARE CONSTITUENT GROUP, an online forum
  for discussing the planning, policies, and practices involved in
  deploying and managing the core enterprise middleware
  infrastructure. Sign up and search the archives at
  http://www.educause.edu/cg/middleware.asp
* Access PROCEEDINGS from past CAMP meetings at
  http://www.educause.edu/conference/nmi/

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CAMP SPONSORS
CAMP is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Middleware
Initiative-Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies (NMI-EDIT)
Consortium: EDUCAUSE, Internet2, and SURA. Additional support is
provided by the National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement NSF
02-028, ANI-0123937.

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