Calendaring and Email Workshop 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 insitutions that has 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.