Drive-By Dialogues

Presenter’s Name Topics The Long Strange Trip of I2 – NLR Merger A Brief Comment on Optical Networking Middleware Developments Security Developments

Presenter’s Name A Long Strange Trip

Presenter’s Name Optical Networking “Packet vs switched” The final answer is both, and it can be done Needs control plane Needs monitoring and measurement Capstone architecture; market will refine Higher ed can drive the invention Future frontiers are not performance related Security, transparency, mobility Trust (note ISOC/IETF Meeting) Non-IP, non-optical wave

Presenter’s Name Security Lots and lots of issues – DDOS, phishing, DNS attacks, problems within the perimeter; some successes Federal efforts REN-ISAC Services Business model work CSI2 FWNA and eduRoam Security and middleware (roles)

Presenter’s Name Middleware Developments SAML and Shibboleth Working with open source and legacy apps InCommon and international federations Collaboration management platforms NSF-Mellon Scientific and Scholarly Workflow

Presenter’s Name SAML and Shibboleth Common roots (RL Bob Morgan, UW and Scott Cantor, OSU) Shibboleth has always been built on SAML/preSAML and primarily add multilateral federation support and metadata With SAML 2.0 convergence is complete, with the Shib code providing multilateral, WS-FED interop Shib 1.3 widely deployed; Shib 2.0 now in beta Undeveloped areas (ARP editors, WAYF, n- tier) becoming visible

Presenter’s Name Shibboleth and applications Wireless access, bandwidth allocation CAS and other SSO Wikis, mail lists, etc Sharepoint (!) Sakai, Kuali, Mellon OpenId is the vapor-weight alternative

Presenter’s Name InCommon Growing steadily now; 75 members and 1.3M user base Major applications include outsourced services, content providers, wiki and collaboration tools NIH and federal follies elsewhere Apple, Google and Microsoft InCommon Bronze and Silver now under discussion

Presenter’s Name Some inter-federation key issues Multi-protocols Sharing metadata Aligning policies WAYF functionality Dispute resolution Virtual organization support

Presenter’s Name Prague Meeting on Inter-federation International R&E federations (5 continents) plus Liberty Alliance and a few others Prague, September 3 Lots of topics: Attribute mapping, Privacy Policies, Dispute resolution, Financial considerations, Technical direction setting UK drafting an analysis of International Peering needs, opportunities, etc.

Presenter’s Name Scientific and Scholarly Workflow Jointly commissioned by NSF and Mellon Intent is not to open new lines of research but identify key components (and implementations) that, with investment, is readily deployable cyberinfrastructure Role of enterprise and federations in collaborative workflow

Presenter’s Name Comanage Management of collaboration a real impediment to collaboration, particularly with the growing variety of tools Goal is to develop a “platform” for handling the identity management aspects of many different collaboration tools Platform includes a framework and model, specific running code that implements the model, and applications that take advantage of the model This space presents possibilities of improving the overall unified UI as well as UI for specific applications and components.

Presenter’s Name Comanage 2 Leverages federated identity and the attribute ecosystem heavily Uses Grouper to manage groups and Signet to manage privileges Built completely on open protocols, using open source components Open and proprietary applications can be plumbed to work with it

Presenter’s Name Comanageable applications Already done Sympa, Federated wikis, Asterisk (open- source IP audioconferencing), Dim-Dim (open-source web meeting) Immediate targets Rich access controlled wikis Web-based file shares

Presenter’s Name Comanage dimensions of growth In the applications that can be driven by it Collaboration and domain science prime areas Largely a function of the application’s respect for middleware In the areas being managed Diagnostics? Others? In the identities being managed In the coupling of autonomous and diverse instances Deployment instances may be at many layers of organization and shift as it matures Underlying stores may be db, directory, or other

Presenter’s Name Takeaways Identity management – several related services Directories and getting applications to use them The REN-ISAC Federations