Agenda
FINAL CSG Workshop and Meeting Agenda
Jekyll Island, Georgia
6-8 January 1999
Wednesday 6 January 1999
CSG Workshop
8:45 Continental Breakfast
9:00 CSG Workshop: NT 5/UNIX Futures
Coordinator: Mark Poepping
Please see Addendum C for the detailed agenda.
5:00 Adjourn
Group Dinner
6:00 Cocktails
7:00 Dinner
Thursday 7 January 1999
CSG Workshop and CSG Meeting
7:45 Continental breakfast
8:00 CSG Workshop: Campus CAs, Certs and PKI
Coordinator: Judith Boettcher
Please see Addendum D for the detailed agenda.
10:30 Adjourn
CSG Meeting
11:00 Working Lunch
11:10 I. Introductory Remarks (Long)
11:15 II. Organizational Members Updates (Vaught)
Possible reports from:
EDUCAUSE (Katz/Luker)
Merit (Aupperle)
Net@EDU (Williams)
CREN (Boettcher)
Internet2 (Hanss)
DLF (Waters/Millman)
CIC Schools (Jackson)
JSTOR (Fuchs)
CNI (Lynch)
Others
12:00 III. Long Term Issue 1: Wireless (technology, market scan)
Coordinator: Poepping
12:30 Break
1:00 IV. Long Term Issue 2: Network (fiber to the desktop, costing model)
Coordinator: Kogut
Topics include the impact of MT-RJ technology on fiber optic
network costs, and how that influences the fiber vs. copper to
the desktop decision.
1:30 V. Short Slots (Long)
A. IT Commons (Klingenstein) [30 minutes]
B. Open [45 minutes]
2:45 Break
3:15 VI. Technology Tracking Group Reports (Worona)
The TTG's whose owners have requested time are:
Calendaring (Paul Hill)
Web Authorization (Sandy Senti)
E-Commerce (Sandy Senti)
Digital Libraries (David Millman)
DCE (Steve Kellogg)
5:00 Adjourn
Group Dinner
6:00 Cocktails
7:00 Dinner
Friday 8 January 1999
CSG Meeting
8:15 Continental Breakfast
8:30 VII. Organizational Issues (Long)
A. Steering/Membership Committee Issues
B. Election of CSG Coordinator
C. Treasurer's Report
D. Logistics for Next Meeting
E. Logistics for Two Meetings Ahead
8:45 VIII. Long Term Issue 3: Distance Education
Coordinator: Staman
This session will include an environmental scan and a summary of the
few common solutions that seem to exist within the distance education/
virtual university arena. The question of business planning will be
discussed. CSG participants who know about distance education
activities in their institutions (or elsewhere) should think about
making brief comments during the discussion phase of the session. The
following are possible topics for discussion:
Principles of good practice
Tuition differentials
Incentives to participate -- for departments, faculty, others
Faculty development (with respect to distance education)
Faculty workload
Technologies -- current, preferred, and trends
9:45 Break
10:15 IX. Long Term Issue 4: Distributed Support Models
Coordinator: Stunden
Discussants will be Cliff Frost talking about the Berkeley
distributed support model and Annie Stunden talking about the
Cornell distributed support model.
11:15 X. Session Proposals for Next Meeting (McCredie)
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 David Millman, Steve Worona
Directory services Mark Poepping
Distributed computing architecture Bob Morgan
Fiber-optic connector technology Rich Kogut
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
Web authorization tools Sandy Senti
Why Higher Education is Different Ken Klingenstein
Wireless technologies Alex Hills
These TTG's currently have no owner:
Computer/network security (proposed by Jack McCredie)
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
* 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
* Yale University
Addendum C: CSG Workshop: NT 5/UNIX Futures
Detailed Agenda
TBD
Addendum D: CSG Workshop: Campus CAs, Certs and PKI
Detailed Agenda
CSG Certificate Authority Workshop
Thursday, January 7, 1999
8:00 to 8:10 a.m.
Introduction and goals for the workshop
Speaker: Phil Long
8:10 to 9:10 a.m.
Identity in the Virtual World
Speaker: David Wasley, U of Ca System
Many institutions are struggling with the need to provide reliable digital
credentials in the virtual world of on-line information and information
resources. Public Key Certificates are one form of such a credential.
PKC's are standards-based and seem to be what the e-commerce community is
moving towards. However, there are a lot of missing pieces in this
technology. In order to know how to fill in the gaps, we need to have a
common understanding of what "identity" means and how it might be created,
managed, used, and revoked in support of the whole range of applications
for which it is needed.
* What is "identity"?
* What are Public Key Certificates?
* Support for Authorization as distinct from Authentication
* How many certificates does one individual need?
* Unresolved issues in the technology
* Issues for multicampus systems; issues across consortial campuses
9:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.
Certificate Technologies Including Public Key Infrastructure
Speaker: Andy Newman, Yale
* What infrastructure is needed for certificates? And just what is the PKI
anyway?
* Range of technologies being used for Certificates
* How are certificates different from the alternatives?
* Issues behind Certificates and Certificate Authorities
* Using the Public Key infrastructure: Issues and practices
* Initial pilot of the CREN CA
9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Practical Experiences with Certificates: Michael Gettes, Princeton
1. Princeton Experiences
** Selection of the Netscape CA server
** Goals for the use of the CA campus server
** Deployment thus far
2. Barriers and Issues
* Technical issues (key escrow, etc.)
* Policy issues
10:15 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Summary and working session on model practices for a campus
Speaker/Facilitator: Phil Long
(Note: Jeff Schiller will be joining us via phone for most of this workshop.)
Common Solutions Group: StoneSoup.org