1. Current Activities in Middleware
Drinking the Kool-Aid
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2. Topics Foundations: Projects Interactions
Application requirements - digital libraries, Grids, IMS, Portals...
MACE (Middleware Architecture Committee for Education) and Partners
Early Harvest best practices
Early Adopters - deployment processes
Projects
eduPerson - a directory objectclass for the community
Shibboleth - interrealm authentication and basic authorization
the Directory of Directories and LDAP Recipe
PKI - technology, policy, research
Interactions
Medical middleware
International Efforts
K-12

3. Activities Early Harvest / Early Adopters -Renee Frost (Michigan)
Mace - RL “Bob” Morgan (Washington)
LDAP Recipe - Michael Gettes (Georgetown)
EduPerson - Keith Hazelton (Wisconsin)
Directory of Directories - Michael Gettes (Georgetown)
Metadirectories - Michael and Keith
Shibboleth - Steven Carmody (Brown)
HEPKI-TAG - Jim Jokl (Virginia)
HEPKI-PAG - Ken Klingenstein (Colorado)
HEBCA - Mark Luker (EDUCAUSE)
Medical Middleware - Rob Carter (Duke)
Opportunities - video, the GRID, K-12

4. More information
Early Harvest / Early Adopters -
Mace - middleware.internet2.edu
LDAP Recipe -
Eduperson -
Directory of Directories - middleware.internet2.edu/dodhe
Shibboleth - middleware.internet2.edu/shibboleth
HEPKI-TAG -
HEPKI-PAG -
Medical Middleware - web site to follow
Opportunities - video, the GRID, K-12

5. Partnerships EDUCAUSE CREN Grids Campuses
Higher Ed Professional associations - AACRAO, NACUA, CUMREC, etc.
Increasing international interactions

6. MACE (Middleware Architecture Committee for Education)
Purpose - to provide advice, create experiments, foster standards, etc. on key technical issues for core middleware within higher ed
Membership - Bob Morgan (UW) Chair, Steven Carmody (Brown), Michael Gettes (Georgetown), Keith Hazelton (Wisconsin), Paul Hill (MIT), Jim Jokl (Virginia), Mark Poepping (CMU), David Wasley (California), Von Welch (NCSA)

7. Early Harvest and Early Adopters
early harvest in the barn…
early adopters aggressively doing deployments
MTU, UMBC, JHU

8. LDAP Recipe how to build and operate a directory in higher ed
1 Tsp. DIT planning 1 Tbsp Schema design 3 oz. configuration lbs of data