Middleware CAMP Feb 2002

Welcome Welcome to the Camp, I guess you all know why we're here. Tommy, by Pete Townsend, The Who We're not gonna take it Never did and never will We're not gonna take it Gonna break it, gonna shake it, let's forget it better still

A Map of Middleware

Acknowledgments MACE - RL “Bob” Morgan (Washington) Chair, Scott Cantor (Ohio State), Steven Carmody (Brown), Michael Gettes (Georgetown), Keith Hazelton (Wisconsin), Paul Hill (MIT), Jim Jokl (Virginia), Mark Poepping (CMU), Bruce Vincent (Stanford), David Wasley (California), Von Welch (NCSA), Brian Gilmore (Edinburgh), Ton Verschuren (SURFnet) The National Science Foundation, NIH, and NIST Corporate Partners- IBM, SUN, Microsoft, Ford, Metamerge, etc. Todd Pickett (Michigan Tech), Egon Verhoren (SURFnet), Brendan Bellina (Notre Dame), Philip Galanter (NYU), Albert Steiner (Northwestern), Art Vandenburg (Georgia State), Tyler Johnson (North Carolina), Walter Hoehm (Columbia), Mairead Martin (Tennessee), Tom Barton (Memphis), Saul Tannenbaum (Tufts)...

CAMP Desiderata Interaction Awareness of the current developments in middleware in higher education Ways to motivate campus investments – benefits to instruction, science, administration, etc. A game plan for your campus, tuned to campus infrastructure Feedback mechanisms to the priorities to the white papers, conventions and best practices, policies to this meeting and this process Volunteers

What is needed from you… Now Volunteers for Microsoft panel Show of hands for Friday’s BOF’s and Sat directory sessions Camp evaluation: value, timing (length and weekends), frequency, what can make them better? Ongoing Join working groups React to developing standards Subscribe to the lists mw-announce and mw-discuss

Simple federated administration client Enterprise LDAP directory Attribute authority Authentication Service target Attribute requestor Policv decision point Policy enforcement point Policy enforcement point Policy enforcement points Video directory Service discovery service Protocols Grid directory Video directory Enterprise LDAP directory

Friday Night BoFs Multicampus Issues –Paula Vaughan, David Wasley Identity Management, directory issues, multicampus content requirements, CA’s, etc. Dealing with Campus Fiefdoms: Interrealm in the Intrarealm – Mark Poepping, Richard Jones bridging campus security realms, Active Directory integration, medical schools and computer science departments, etc. From the Application Developers View – Scott Cantor, Lee Varian using middleware, dealing with legacy systems, revisiting the IT infrastructure, etc. “We Have So Many Forms of Discovery and None of them Really Work” – Keith Hazelton, RL “Bob” Morgan resource discovery in a new world order

Saturday Morning Directories: The Same, but Different Four parallel tracks – each with the same slide deck but with a different viewpoint Tom Barton Richard Jones Keith Hazelton Rob Banz

Saturday afternoon Microsoft Panel Matching enterprise ids with SIDs Kerberos realms in MS and K5 Integrating Active Directory with An Enterprise Directory Use of Active Directory as the Enterprise Directory Use of Windows 2K Certificate Authority Client Issues – XP,.Net, IE

Saturday Night Sessions Metamerge – Johan Vaerno, CTO Sun –iPlanet Engineers Other BoFs as are organized… Ethiopean restaurants, Mongolian barbeques, burritos by the billions….

Taking a campus assessment Where are you with enterprise name spaces? What is the extent and approach to a central authentication service? What is in your enterprise directory? What applications use the directory?