Middleware Announcements

[Renee Frost <>]

Shibbing News (April 2004): Periodic news and announcements about the 
Internet2/MACE Shibboleth Project. For more information, please visit the 
main Shibboleth page at http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/


1. SFX / Ex Libris is looking for campuses to work with. They are planning 
to begin testing with Shibboleth 1.2 this summer. Currently they are in 
discussion with Duke University. They want to hear from other campuses that 
would be interested working with them. If you are interested contact Oren 
Beit-Arie <> and please carbon copy Steven 
Carmody <> and George Brett <>.


2. Elsevier is now working hard on Shib-enabling Science Direct and is 
looking toward a May 2004 rollout. They're interested in identifying 
several campuses that would like to work  with them, as their shib-enabled 
service comes available. If you are interested contact  Chris Shillum 
<> and please carbon copy Steven Carmody 
<> and George Brett <>.


3. Shibboleth was the subject of a short Network World article, "What about 
Shibboleth? This open source effort seems confined to research environments 
for now" written by James Kobielus. The article can be found at: 
http://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2004/ndc2/0322idmgtside2.html While Mr. 
Kobielus noted that there are "about 40 U.S. campuses" participating in 
Shibboleth, he neglected to mention not only the international 
participants, but also the commercial partners in the Shibboleth project.


4. CAMP Shibboleth Implementation Workshop -- Broomfield, CO, June 28-30

The CAMP Shibboleth Implementation Workshop provides CIOs, IT architects, 
directors, technical librarians, technical staff, and others concerned with 
sharing resources among institutions the opportunity to come together to 
discuss the planning, policy, and federation requirements associated with 
implementing Shibboleth, as well as the technical specifics of deploying it.

To get the most out of the workshop, participants should understand the 
concepts of or have experience in implementing enterprise directory and 
authentication systems and related policy and management issues. This event 
is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Middleware 
Initiative-Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies (NMI-EDIT) 
Consortium: EDUCAUSE, Internet2, and SURA. Additional support was provided 
by the National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement NSF 02-028, 
ANI-0123937.

Registration is now open.  For more information check the web site: 
http://www.educause.edu/conference/nmi/2004/camp042/


5. For those attending the Internet2 2004 Spring Member Meeting here is 
summary information about Shibboleth and Middleware sessions. More 
information can be found in full online at: 
http://events.internet2.edu/2004/spring-mm/agenda.cfm?event=203

Shibboleth: Moving Your Campus to Production Tutorial
Monday April 19, 2004, 8:15 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
This technical tutorial will present several campus experiences with this 
transition and offer attendees discussion opportunities and concrete tips 
and suggestions for moving their installation to production. [NB: Separate 
registration required]

Shibboleth Working Group BoF
Monday April 19, 2004, 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM EDT
This session will review and discuss several of the Shibboleth-related 
development efforts that are currently underway (eg the web-based GUI for 
maintaining Attribute Release Policies), and discuss and explore items in 
the Shibboleth roadmap for the next year.

Shibboleth Today and Tomorrow
Tuesday April 20, 2004, 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
This session will include campus case studies on transitioning from testing 
to production, including an introduction to the policy, technical, and 
transition issues each institution addressed. The Shibboleth roadmap for 
the coming year will be presented as well.

Authorization and Authority Systems BoF
Monday April 19, 2004, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Representative from Grouper and the Authority System project will summarize 
their vision and the current state of work on tools that offer the promise 
of robust distributed administration of groups in general and privilege 
management in particular.

Directories Working Group BoF
Monday April 19, 2004, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EDT
A primary goal of this session will be to invite participants to suggest 
new work areas and offer guidance on relative priority of tasks for the 
MACE-Dir directory working group for the upcoming year.

NSF Middleware Initiative: Leveraging Enterprise Middleware to Support 
Virtual Organizations and Grids
Tuesday April 20, 2004, 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
Topics of this session include emerging virtual organization tools, 
developing a grid application catalog and operational user-friendly grid, 
and integrating grids with enterprise authentication services, resulting in 
a truly global sharing of resources. This session will also describe 
current activities, offer a glimpse into this collaborative future, and 
provide information on how to participate in this integration project.

InCommon and Federations
Tuesday April 20, 2004, 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
This session will discuss various federations being established both here 
and in other countries and how the various documents required as 
underpinning for these federations help determine how trust works.

Directories
Tuesday April 20, 2004, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
This session will have three presentations (1) will highlight real-world 
choices of how to represent the necessary information in registries and 
directories so that it is available for use by applications, (2) will 
introduce emerging tools and techniques for managing groups generally and 
authorization information specifically based on a pair of current 
Internet2-sponsored projects, and (3) will stress the increasingly 
international flavor of directory work with reference to the international 
person schema coordination work

Federated Security Services
Wednesday April 21, 2004, 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

PKI and e-Authentication
Wednesday April 21, 2004, 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EDT
This session will explore current PKI efforts within higher education and 
the federal government and the relationships to e-authentication.