Agenda
CSG Workshop and Meeting Agenda
University of Chicago
16-18 September 1998
Wednesday 16 September 1998
CSG Workshop
Room 400 Gleacher Center
8:45 Continental Breakfast
9:00 CSG Workshop: Calendaring and Email
Coordinator: Greg Jackson
Please see Addendum C for the detailed agenda.
12:30 Lunch
1:30 CSG Workshop: Calendaring and Email (continued)
5:30 Adjourn
Group Dinner - Mantuano's Mediterranean Table
6:00 Cocktails
7:00 Dinner
Thursday 17 September 1998
CSG Workshop and CSG Meeting
Room 400 Gleacher Center
7:45 Continental breakfast
8:00 CSG Workshop: IT Organization, Advisory Committees,
and Distributed Support
Coordinator: Ann Stunden
Please see Addendum D for the detailed agenda.
10:30 Adjourn
CSG Meeting
Room 406 Gleacher Center
11:00 Working Lunch
11:10 I. Introductory Remarks (King)
11:15 II. Organizational Members Updates (Vaught)
A. EDUCAUSE (Katz/Luker)
B. NTTF (Luker)
C. Merit (Aupperle)
D. FARNET and R&E Networking (Staman)
E. CREN (Boettcher)
F. Internet2 (Hanss)
G. DLF (Waters)
H. CIC Schools (Jackson)
I. JSTOR (Fuchs)
J. CNI (Lynch)
K. Others
12:00 III. Long Term Issue 1: Web Management
Coordinator: Ken Klingenstein
1:00 Break
1:30 IV. Long Term Issue 2: Research Computing
Coordinator: Russ Vaught
2:30 V. Short Slots (Long)
A. CREN Certificate Authority Service (Boettcher) [30 minutes]
B. Microsoft Workshop Follow-up (Poepping) [15 minutes]
3:15 Break
3:45 V. Short Slots, continued (Long)
C. Open
4:15 VI. Technology Tracking Group Reports (Worona)
5:30 Adjourn
Group Dinner - Blackhawk Lodge
6:30 Cocktails
7:30 Dinner
Friday 18 September 1998
CSG Meeting
Room 406 Gleacher Center
8:15 Continental Breakfast
8:30 VII. Organizational Issues (Long)
A. Steering/Membership Committee Issues (Long)
B. Treasurer's Report (Wolfe)
C. CSG Secretariat Renewal (Antonelli)
D. Logistics for Next Meeting (Antonelli, Staman)
E. Logistics for Two Meetings Ahead (Long)
8:45 VIII. Long Term Issue 3: Authorization
Coordinator: Jim Bruce
Please see Addendum E for the detailed agenda.
9:45 Break
10:15 IX. Long Term Issue 4: Security Office
Coordinator: Jack McCredie
11:15 X. Session Proposals for Next Meeting (McCredie)
A. Long-term Issues, Redux Sessions & Workshops
Candidates:
IMS (Lide)
B. Vendor Sessions
C. Projects
12:00 Adjourn
12:00 Lunch (box lunches available)
Addendum A: Candidate TTG Topics
Get in touch with Steve Worona to get a topic on the agenda, add
topics, or volunteer to coordinate open topics.
Authenticated DHCP; drop-in connections Mark Poepping
Authentication/security Bob Morgan
Campus network architectures Doug Gale
Campus network funding models Jack McCredie
Charging for printing Phil Long
Collaboration tools Steve Carmody
Community networking Ken Klingenstein
DCE Steve Kellogg
Digital Libraries Sue Rosenblatt, Steve Worona
Directory services Mark Poepping
Distributed computing architecture Bob Morgan
E-mail Terry Gray
Human resources issues Jack McCredie
Internet-2 applications Ted Hanss
Internet-2 resource allocation Ken Klingenstein
Network Commerce Jeff Schiller, Sandy Senti
Network computers Bob Morgan
Network-based calendaring Paul Hill, Greg Jackson
Policy Steve Worona
Service level agreements Ken Klingenstein
Video Ed Sharp
Wireless technologies Alex Hills
These TTG's currently have no owner:
Computer/network security
Departmental LANs
Financial management
Higher-Ed objects
Information Technology Architecture
Internet-2 technology
Metadirectories
Version control and software distrib
WWW
Workflow
Addendum B: Current List of Members of the Common Solutions Group
* Brown University
* Carnegie Mellon University
* CNI
* Columbia University
* Cornell University
* CREN - Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
* Digital Library Federation (DLF)
* EDUCAUSE
* George Washington University
* Georgetown University
* Harvard University
* Merit
* MIT
* Pennsylvania State University
* Princeton University
* Stanford University
* University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development
* University of California - Berkeley
* University of California - Office of the President
* University of Chicago
* University of Colorado - Boulder
* University of Maryland
* University of Michigan
* University of Utah
* University of Virginia
* University of Washington
* University of Wisconsin - Madison
* University System of Georgia
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
* Yale University
Addendum C: CSG Workshop: Calendaring and Email
Detailed Agenda
Campus-wide Email and Calendaring: Prospects for Progress
Common Solutions Group Workshop
September 16, 1998
Gleacher Center
University of Chicago (downtown)
8:30-8:45 Introduction
G Jackson
Campus-wide email and calendaring: Most of us have the former, but it
needs work, and most of us don't have the latter, but keep thinking we
should have it. The practical questions are, what are the options, and
what criteria does each meet?
8:45-10:15 Protocols and Standards
K Klingenstein, University of Colorado (& guests, perhaps)
A review of the widely discussed standard mechanisms in this space:
IMAP, x.509, Kerberos/NT5, PGP, vCalendar, etc.
10:15-10:45 Break
10:45-12:30 Electronic Mail, etc.
F Steen, Harvard University
R Bartlett or G Buchholz, University of Chicago
W Sproule, Princeton University
(others perhaps tbd)
The email/message store/authentication/encryption question, with a
couple of panelists representing institutions that have made a choice
and are underway, and another representing an institution that is still
contemplating its choices.
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:15 Calendaring, etc.
D Updegrove, Yale
P Hill, MIT
The calendar situation, from a panel involving one off-the-shelf school
and another from a build-if-we-must school.
3:15-3:45 Break
3:45-5:30 The Vendors and the Products
Presenters tbd
Observations about (or perhaps from) three or four of the major
vendor-side actors in this space, and addressing likely common
standards (whether formal or informal), architectures,
interoperability, etc.
Addendum D: CSG Workshop: IT Organization, Advisory Committees,
and Distributed Support
Detailed Agenda
University IT Organizations - What Works - What Could be Better
or
If I Ran the Circus (thanks Dr. Seuss)
I - Introduction - Some Generic Higher Ed IT Organizational Concerns
or
What Are We All Struggling With Organizationally
II - Presentations - Presenters will answer a set of questions
about their Institutions that encompass the following broad areas:
How Central IT Is Organized.
How IT Is Organized/Supported Campus Wide.
What Is The Committee Structure Surrounding IT
What Works Well with These Organizational Arrangements.
What Doesn't Work As Well.
How the IT Organization Could Be Different.
Presenters: (order not yet clear)
Phil Long, Yale University
Bill Aikman, University of Michigan
Vijay Kumar, MIT
III. An opportunity for attendees to share their organizational
dilemmas and/or creative organizational solutions.
Specific questions the presenters will attempt to address
include:
What does the central IT organization look like organizationally?
- Structure, number of people in different groups, where the org
reports.
- How are the schools and departments supported? What is the role
of the central org in that support and what are the roles of the
schools?
- What are the advisory bodies around IT (faculty, administrative,
departmental).
- Any other key committee, task-force structures.
- How are some of the key functions managed within the central
organization and campus wide (e.g., security, training)?
- How are finances managed for the central organization? Who owns
the budget, the budget process, etc?
- What works well in this organizational model at your campus?
- What could be improved?
- And - if you ran the circus - what changes would you make to the
current organizational structure?
- Throw it all up in the air and start again?
- Tinkering?
- Why would this be better? What would you expect to accomplish with
these changes?
Addendum E: Long Term Issue 3: Authorization
Three Takes on Authorizations at Three Universities
Authorization at the University of Michigan
Charles Antonelli, Speaker
U-M currently uses the AFS Protection Server (ptserver) with Kerberos
V4 authentication as the basis for a campus-wide authorization
service.
The presentation will describe the ptserver architecture and U-M
extensions to it, how it is used on campus, some experiences and issues
with the service, and future directions.
Roles Database at MIT
Jim Repa, Speaker
MIT has implemented a system, called the Roles Database, to centrally
manage people's authorizations for multiple computer-based applications.
The system was designed to support an environment where many people are
authorized to perform similar tasks, but for different departments or
groups of accounts.
The presentation will summarize the design of the Roles Database and
describe how it is being used to manage authorizations for MIT's data
warehouse, SAP financial system, and other applications.
Authorizations at Stanford
Sandy Senti, Speaker
Stanford has had an authorization system in place for their mainframe
applications for several years. Recently they have re-implemented this
authorization system outside the mainframe for their Oracle financials
roll out.
Included in the presentation will be information about the kinds of
authorizations handled along with the current and future use of the
system.
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