Authentication Workshop

 Here is the agenda for the CSG authentication/authorization/encryption
workshop to be held at the San Diego Hilton on Wednesday, January 7,
1998.  This workshop is open to all CSG member institutions, who may
send as many individuals as they like.  It is also open to members of
the National Digital Library Federation, which is arranging the
following day's Digital Library workshop.  Contact Larisa McEachran
(larjoymc@umich.edu) for further logistical details.

 8:00am- 8:30am: Continental breakfast
 8:30am- 9:15am: Overview of the problem [Greg Jackson, Univ of Chicago]
 9:15am-10:00am: Pieces of the solution [Bob Morgan, Stanford]
10:00am-10:30am: Break
10:30am-11:15am: MIT's approach [Jeff Schiller, MIT]
11:15am-12 noon: Minnesota's approach [Frank Grewe, Univ of Minnesota]
12 noon- 1:00pm: Lunch
 1:00pm- 1:45pm: CNI and cross-campus issues [Clifford Lynch, CNI]
 1:45pm- 2:30pm: [presentation of an "off the shelf" solution, TBD]
 2:30pm- 3:00pm: Break
 3:00pm- 4:00pm: Vendor panel [PGP, Entrust, others TBD]: Introductory
                 Remarks
 4:00pm- 5:30pm: Discussion with vendors and audience [facilitated by
                 Ken Klingenstein, Univ of Colorado, Boulder]

          The Common Solutions Group will sponsor a dinner for workshop
          attendees.  Details will follow.

This is a complex area, where words like "authentication" and
"authorization" carry a great deal of hidden background.  We're
therefore starting with two context-setting overview talks from Greg
Jackson and Bob Morgan.  In particular, Bob Morgan's "Pieces of the
solution" presentation notes that we have public-key encryption,
Kerberos, S-MIME, PGP, and a host of other technologies and
methodologies that need to be recognized in their stand-alone
incarnations before we can understand their use in combination.  After
this overview and a break, we hear about two very different approaches
to putting the pieces together, one from MIT and one from Minnesota.
That concludes the morning.

Up to this point, nearly all of the material has been oriented towards
(a) hand-assembled solutions for (b) a single campus.  After lunch, we
have Cliff Lynch talking about not-(b), that is, about cross-campus
issues, which are extremely important to the Coalition for Networked
Information, especially in the context of access to electronic
publications.  And then we have a not-(a) presentation (an
"off-the-shelf" solution) from some campus (still to be determined)
that has found such a solution that meets its needs.  Finally,
following the afternoon break, we have a panel with 3 or 4 vendor
representatives.  Each will do a 15-minute introduction, and then we'll
have 60-90 minutes to ask the vendors questions and have a general
discussion and wrap-up.

This should be an extremely informative workshop for everyone working
on -- or worried about -- campus-wide and cross-campus authentication
and authorization issues.  We hope you'll attend, along with your
interested staff.

Workshop program committee:
     Greg Jackson (Chicago)
     Bob Morgan (Stanford)
     Don Riley (Minnesota)
     Steve Worona (Cornell)