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17th TF-EMC2 Meeting
14-15 February 2011, Lyon, France

The 17^th Task Force on European Middleware Coordination and Collaboration (TF-EMC²) was held on Monday, 14^th and Tuesday, 15^th of February, 2011 at the Amphithéâtre Emilie du Chatelet 31 avenue Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne in Lyon, France.

The TF-EMC2 meeting minutes are now available.

The participants' list is available on line.

Agenda & Presentations

Monday 14^th February

• 10:00 - Registration
• 10:30 - 11:00 Welcome, agenda bashing and review of the minutes & actions of the previous meeting - Diego Lopez
• 11:00 - 12:30 Work items updates - All Work items (WI) leaders. (Part I)
  a. Services to the community, Licia Florio
      - REFEDS Update, Nicole Harris
      - PEER, Leif Johansson
      - TACAR in the light of eduPKI, Milan Sova
  b. Diagnostic-related Activities, Miroslav Milinovic
      - Universal federation monitoring, Jaime Pérez (Extended Abstract)
  c. Reputation Systems, Jaime Pérez
  d. Academic Data Mobility, Victoriano Giralt
  
• 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
• 13:30 - 15:00 Work items updates - All Work items (WI) leaders. (Part II)
  e. Identity Services beyond Web Single Sign-On, Josh Howlett
      - Update on Moonshot/ABFAB, Rhys Smith
  f. Community outreach, Torbjörn Wiberg
      - WAYF's dynamic federation calculator, David Simonsen (WAYF)
  g. Alternative Forms of Expressing Identity, Diego Lopez
      - Bridging the SAML + PKI worlds, Christopher Brown (JISC) (JISC Projects from FAM10)
  
• 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
• 15:30 - 17:30 Work items updates - All Work items (WI) leaders. (Part III)
  h. Service-oriented Collaboration Infrastructures, Niels van Dijk
      - Knowledge Exchange and its identity and middleware requirements, Christopher Brown (JISC)
      - SURFconext Platform, Niels van Dijk
      - Shibboleth and Nuxeo, Olivier Salaün
  
• 17:30 Ajourn
• 20:00 - 22:30 Valentine's Day Dinner at Brasserie Georges (30 Cours de Verdun Perrache) supported by CRU.

Tuesday 15^th February

• 9:00 - 11:00 National & Community Updates - All (Part I)
  Topics/Presentations for this section should be sent to the TF-EMC² Secretary, Brook Schofield or raised on the mailing list (subscribe) prior to the meeting.
  i. auEduPersonSharedToken and other unique persistent identifiers, Patricia McMillan (AAF) & Bradley Beddoes (AAF) -- remote participation.
  j. A trio of social networking authsources for simpleSAMLphp, Brook Schofield (TERENA)
  k. Logins4Life, David Chadwick (University of Kent)
  
• 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
• 11:30 - 13:00
  l. Cloud access, storage services and other beasts, Andrew Cormack (JANET)
      - Privacy Preserving Federated Access to Clouds, David Chadwick (University of Kent) & Sampo Kellomaki
      - Identity-hub: Towards the Identity in the Cloud, Mikael Ates (Entr'ouvert)
  
• 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
• 14:00 - 15:30
  m. SAML 2.0 @ work with Microsoft SharePoint, OWA, etc., Jean-Marie Thia (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
  n. The SPP approach at TERENA, Dyonisius Visser (TERENA)
  o. DIY federation management (Demo), Jacob-Steen Madsen
  
• 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
• 16:00 - 17:30
  p. Expectations on eduGAIN and next steps, Valter Nordh
  q. Querying, Signing and Distributing Metadata Sets (PDF/ODP), Kristof Bajnok (eduid.hu)
  r. IdM Strategy, Support + Training for the developing NREN, Brook Schofield (TERENA)
  
• 17:30 - Wrap-up and conclusions

Wednesday 16^th February

A meeting of TF-MNM (Mobility and Network Middleware) was held following TF-EMC².

Venue

The meeting was supported by CRU and RENATER with the venue courtesy of University and INSA of Lyon.

The meeting was held in the Amphithéâtre Emilie du Chatelet 31 avenue Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne

Local logistic and accommodation information was made available on the CRU website.