MACE: Directories at Work

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MACE Directories at Work

• Keith Hazelton, Senior IT Architect, Univ. of
  Wisconsin-Madison
• Chair, MACE-Dir Working Group

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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 615 745 tonight,
  Salons F G

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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

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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.

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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

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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.
• urnmacebrown.edufoo
• mace-submit_at_internet2.edu for information on URN
  registration

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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

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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

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Future work

• Authorization (including policy assertions)
• Interoperation with Grid Metacomputing Directory
  Services (MDS)

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Conclusion

• The root URLs for all these topics
• http//middleware.internet2.edu
• http//nsf-middleware.org
• QA