Bob Blakley from the Burton Group presented some of the content of his soon-to-be-released Relationship Layer paper at both IIW 2008a and Data Sharing Summit 2. Phil Windley has a longer writeup on his blog, but the gist of the paper is that “identity” only has meaning within a relationship.

The first day (long workshop) is covering “Cyberinfrastructure” There was first a presentation from Chad Kainz of the UofChicago and basically made the case for central IT’s role in supporting humanities using cyberinfrastructure. He presented on the bamboo project which is Mellon Foundation funded.
http://www.projectbamboo.org/

The second part of the morning was more directly part of our world in IT Services. The topic is virtual organizations as cyberinfrastructure. Ken “Ming” Klingenstein did his Comanage schtich which called out the LIGO work that Scotty is doing. The next presentation was from the Jim Leous of PSU who is a researcher on the LIGO project. It was cool to see the application of the collaborative tools. No one is fooling themselves that having tools will overcome investigators tendency to be very picky about the level they are willing to share with their “collaborators” though.
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Several people have asked for the slides (PDF, 5MB) from my COmanage session at the last I2 member meeting. They’re not slidumentation or docu-point, so I’m not sure how useful they’ll really be to others. Contact me if you want the original Keynote slides.

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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After the presentation, lunch, then onto discussions of various permissions management issues.
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Representatives from Washington, Stanford, Penn State and MIT met at MIT to discuss their permissions management systems and Internet2’s Signet system on May 2, 2008.
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We often run multiple applications on a single server; if the apps all need the same set of attributes they can be treated as a single Service Provider (SP). Sometimes the applications need to be separated, and the obvious, easy way to do this, other than running them on separate servers, or to add a separate IP address, SSL certificate and Apache virtual host for each application. However, a Shibboleth SP can be configured with multiple providerIds, using a single certificate.

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In an effort to address information security concerns, several teams have been formed to make recommendations to improve to processes, skills, systems design and technology in IT Services.

These are the areas of effort where teams have been tasked to specific categories of information security.

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• BC/DR Tape Recovery Full Test
• Campus Card Network Upgrade
• Configuration Management
• Desktop and Laptop Data Protection
• Document and Content Management Discovery
• Emergency Notification Text Messaging
• Enterprise Storage System/Solution
• Integrated Email and Calendar Implementation
• Quality Assurance Tools
• Remedy v7
• System Reporting and Monitoring
• Work Anywhere Toolkit