Middleware Announcements

[Lisa Hogeboom <>]

MACE-MLISA Working Group

MACE-MLIST, the newest MACE working group, will focus on developing
open-source, 
Middleware-enabled mailing list software. This work is supported by NSF
grant 
ANI-0330543 "NMI-Enabled Open Source Collaboration Tools for Virtual
Organizations" to the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

MACE-MLIST will: (1) research, solve and document issues surrounding
middleware-enablement of mailing list services (2) collaborate with open
source communities to consider needed modifications or other techniques
for achieving better integration with 
the enterprise/federation. (3) design, implement, analyze and report on a
survey of current 
university mailing list users to identify favorite features, needed
improvements, and notable warts. 
(4) test-drive pilot/prototype solutions. All interested I2 members are
eligible and welcome to participate. For more Information: 
http://middleware.internet2.edu/mlist/
**  There will be a meeting of this working group at the Internet2
Spring Member Meeting on Monday.


SALSA-Arch Working Group

SALSA-Arch is the new working group created by SALSA to investigate
issues related to (1) identification of functions or components used to
prevent unauthorized or enabled authorized access to data or resources,
for the purpose of improving communication, (2) selection of design rules
to facilitate operations or enable new services, (3) adoption of specific
techniques of interest to the community that may impact the
above.   These activities must accommodate a wide range of
campus and departmental security policies, procedures, and schemas - the
details of which are beyond this group's scope. 
For more information: 
http://security.internet2.edu/arch/


SALSA-NetAuth Working Group

SALSA-netauth is the new working group created by SALSA to 
investigate the various techniques that currently exist to provide 
identification, registration, and authorized access to campus networks.
The focus and initial goals will include investigation of requirements
and implementations of network database and registration services in
support of network security management, investigation of extensions 
to these services to proactively detect and prevent unauthorized or 
malicious network activity, and analysis and an initial proposal toward
supporting network access to visiting scientists among federated
institutions
For more information: 
http://security.internet2.edu/netauth