Middleware Announcements

[Lisa Hogeboom <>]

Signet Working Group

Signet, the newest MACE working group, will focus on developing a
"privilege management recipe" document describing privilege
management concepts and deployment methods. It will also produce a
software toolkit that can be used by organizations to deploy their own
privilege management service.

A privilege management service is a key component of campus middleware
that provides for central management of user privileges across a range of
applications. Benefits include a standard user interface for privilege
administrators, consistent simplified policy definition, interfaces to
other infrastructure services and to application systems to support
integration. Deploying and taking full advantage of a privilege
management service has a number of technical and organizational
prerequisites, based on some campus experiences with such
deployment.

All interested Internet2 members are eligible and welcome to participate.
For more Information: 
http://middleware.internet2.edu/signet/