Middleware Announcements

[Renee Frost <>]

The Internet2 MACE-Signet Working Group has released its Early Adopter
Call for Participation, available now on the Signet page
http://middleware.internet2.edu/signet/.
Internet2 is seeking R&E institutions, and in
particular Virtual Organizations (VOs), to assist in shaping the
direction and priorities, and deploying and evaluating early versions of
the Signet Privilege Management System, developed by the
Signet Working
Group (WG). This work is based on the Stanford Authority System,
which is a mature and extensively tested system that has been broadly
deployed in production use at Stanford for several years. The Signet
Working Group is focused on using this system as the foundation for an
extensible, robust, and flexible privilege management system that can be
used within other environments and infrastructures. 

Participation in this program may take a variety of forms, depending upon
the interests and qualifications of responders. See the website for
further detail on possible forms of participation. Responses are due no
later than Friday 10-September 2004.

Renée Woodten Frost
Assistant Director, Middleware and Security
Internet2
3025 Boardwalk Suite 100
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108
phone:  734-913-4293    fax:  734-913-4255