Shibboleth Developers

For those of you attending the Internet2 member meeting next week, 
here is a list of sessions of note. This is certainly not an 
exhaustive list, but just sessions that may be relevant to 
Shibboleth. The full agenda is available at:

http://events.internet2.edu/2006/spring-mm/agenda.cfm?event=242

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Monday, 4/24
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4:45 PM - 6:15 PM       Shibboleth Working Group

Possible Topics for discussion include:

-- update on OpenSAML 2.0 status
-- comments on ShARPE/Autograph, a web GUI for managing ARPs (Moritz Theile)
-- comments on TestShib status and migration
-- description of USC's ARP Resolver enhancement (Will)
-- comments on Shib 2.0 -- definition of first release, deliverable planning
-- comments on a new approach to the Delegation Profile (Shib in n-tier)
-- discussion of home site discovery issues and approaches 
(alternative approach to WAYF)

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Tuesday, 4/25
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8:45 AM - 10:00 AM   The Big Picture for Internet2 Middleware (netcast)

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM    Federations

   Peter Alterman  , National Institutes of Health, Federal CIO Council
   Thomas Lenggenhager , SWITCH
   David Wasley , (Retired) University of California Office of the President

Federations are proving to be an effective and scaleable approach to 
managing policy, trust, and technical issues for large numbers of 
members with common requirements. They are also emerging as forums 
where common solutions and approaches can be developed. This session 
will review the current state of Higher Ed/Research Federations 
around the world, and describe some recent examples of cooperation. 
European national federations are working together on common 
approaches to commercial information providers. And the Federal 
E-Authentication Federation has used their User Group to identify and 
explore common problems.

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Wednesday, 4/26
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8:45 AM - 10:00 AM Preparing Your Institution for Shibboleth and 
Shibboleth Deployment Sites Panel Discussion


   Steven Carmody , Brown University
   David Kennedy , University of Maryland
   Charles Leonhardt , Georgetown University
   John Paschoud , London School of Economics and Political Science

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM Managing Middleware Environments (Netcast)

   Steven Carmody  , Brown University
   Walter Hoehn , University of Memphis
   Neil Witheridge , Macquarie University

Two new tools, Nexus and SHARPE, enrich campus identity management 
environments. Nexus, produced by the Univ.of Memphis and the 
Internet2 Middleware Initiative, provides seemless and appropriate 
access to all enterprise resources by automatically creating and 
managing identity and privilege information across multiple 
directory, database, and authentication systems. Shibboleth is a 
Federated Single Signon solution; many campuses also use it as an 
intra-campus SSO solution. SHARPE is a web-based GUI developed by the 
Australian MAMS project for managing Shibboleth Attribute Release 
Policies (ARPs). In this session we'll describe both both the Nexus 
and SHARPE products, emphasizing how they can integrate into a campus 
identity management infrastructure, and demonstrate the SHARPE 
management GUI.