I’m in Tempe, AZ (next to Univ. of AZ) at a special I2 CAMP session on federations in the context of Registrars and their world.

Sun has come to the conclusion that they needed a RESTful alternative to ID-WSF, and have looked at OAuth + REST.
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The Internet Identity Workshop is running at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
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Wow! That’s bunch of acronyms. ☺

I was invited to attend one of the University of California IT Leadership Council meetings. http://www.ucop.edu/irc/itlc/welcome.html This is a group of IT Architects and CIO’s that meet on a regular basis and cover specific topics. It’s very much like a Common Solutions Group for the UC system. This particular event was on the topic of Service Oriented Architecture.

I was invited by the CIO of UC Berkeley, Shelton Waggener. There was a fair amount of enterprise infrastructure integration on the agenda but the primary focus was SOA for the use of administrative systems.There was a wide range of sophistication from university to university in terms of use and vision around SOA. Apart from a deeper idea of business applications of SOA, what I found most illuminating was the difference between state systems (which lend themselves to federation) and the relatively provincial nature of private institutions, like Stanford.

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Background: CSG is a group of 25-30 R1 level Universities with a peppering of associated institutions whose CIO’s and CTO-ish types get together three times a year and cover a range of IT service, technology and organizational issues.

I’ll give you my view of the procedings (below) but here’s another listing that’s pretty complete by session that Oren Sreebny (UnivWash) did.

The first day of this CSG was on campus datacenter strategies and associated issues. Our own Bill Clebsch ran the daylong session. There were many very useful insights from other uni’s that have recently built, are currently building or refurbishing their principle datacenters on campus.

This is the third of these meetings I’ve been to at NIST in Maryland. It’s well attended this year and the debates seem even livelier this year. Here is the agenda, and the conference site.

I see a clear attempt for a bunch of security, infrastructure and cryptography geeks to make their message more pedestrian…er, I mean publicly accessible.

The keynote was from a professor from the UK who’s Has Johnny Learnt To Encrypt By Now? Examining the troubled relationship between a sand its users and what was interesting was how the tone was set around ease fo use instead of the architecture and technology centric nature of the talks the last time I was here (two years ago).

Things got pretty heated around the subject of DNSSEC…some hold over from an IETF veto. This discussion and the one on DKIM were extremely interesting. What was interesting was the different angles to the discussion around domain keys.