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MACE: Directories at Work

MACE: Directories at Work. Keith Hazelton, Senior IT Architect, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Chair, MACE-Dir Working Group. MACE: Directories at Work. Four MACE-Dir worker bees recount recent accomplishments and potential new efforts Keith Hazelton, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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MACE: Directories at Work

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  1. MACE: Directories at Work Keith Hazelton, Senior IT Architect, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Chair, MACE-Dir Working Group

  2. MACE: Directories at Work • Four MACE-Dir worker bees recount recent accomplishments and potential new efforts • Keith Hazelton, University of Wisconsin-Madison • Tom Barton, University of Memphis • Brendan Bellina, University of Notre Dame • Michael Gettes, Georgetown University • Start a discussion about priorities for new work, continue at Directory BoF 6:15 – 7:45 tonight, Salons F & G

  3. eduPerson 1.5 object class • Included as part of the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) Release 1.0 announced today, May 7th • eduPerson 1.0 is the production version, 1.5 status is “released for public review” (RPR) • Next NMI release will include final 1.5 based on review period discussions

  4. eduPerson 1.5 object class • Changes from 1.0: • Introductory section added • RFC2252 style definitions included for the eduPerson object class itself and for each of the eduPerson attributes. • Notes on additional attributes from existing object classes, existing notes clarified, syntax and indexing recommendations updated.

  5. eduPerson 1.5 object class • Two new attributes: • eduPersonPrimaryOrgUnitDN • eduPersonEntitlement • Simple case: value is the name of a contract for licensed resource • http://xstor.com/contract1234 • Values of eduPersonEntitlement can be URLs or URNs

  6. eduPerson 1.5 object class • eduPersonEntitlement • Values of eduPersonEntitlement can be URLs or URNs • http://www.w3.org/Addressing/ • RFC2396 Uniform Resource Identifiers • RFC2141 Uniform Resource Names • URNs to allow federation of name creation without name clashes. • urn:mace:brown.edu:foo • mace-submit@internet2.edu for information on URN registration

  7. eduOrg 1.0 • eduOrg 1.0 released as “Experimental” object class • Basic organizational info attributes from X.520 • Telecomm, postal, locale • eduOrgHomePageURI • eduOrgIdentityAuthNPolicyURI • eduOrgLegalName • eduOrgSuperiorURI • eduOrgWhitePagesURI

  8. Future work • EduOrg “blue page” entries • EduOrgUnit 1.0 object class and attributes • Affiliated directories scenarios • Identity management in Health Sciences • Assembling info on the fly • Data/Metadata bundles as units of exchange • Exploring with our Technical Advisory Board

  9. Future work • Authorization (including policy assertions) • Interoperation with Grid Metacomputing Directory Services (MDS)

  10. Conclusion • The root URLs for all these topics: • http://middleware.internet2.edu • http://nsf-middleware.org • Q&A

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