Chandler and Higher Education Spring CSG Meeting Princeton

Background Through the Mellon Foundation, OSAF and CSG were introduced and participated in two full-day meetings CSG concluded that Chandler could be compelling application for higher education In March 2003, through an initial Mellon grant, CSG and OSAF collaborated to develop the incremental requirements for a higher education version of Chandler

Chandler in a Nutshell™ Open Source Personal Information Manager , calendar, contacts, tasks, free-form items Easy sharing and collaboration Server optional Linux, Mac, and Windows Modular and extensible platform

4 Key Recommendations 1.Nomadic usage and central Repositories 2.Standards based CAP Client 3.Full interoperability with standards based infrastructure 4.Robust security framework

Nomadic Usage and Central Repositories Access to Chandler data from multiple machines is essential Architecture allows for small peer-to-peer distributed workgroups to scalable, centrally managed repositories

Standards based CAP Client Standards based solution will permit interoperability with Oracle Calendar, Sun One and Open Source CAP servers, reducing ‘lock- in’ to single vendor solutions Chandler will provide delegation and resource scheduling features to provide complete client calendaring solution

Interoperability with Standards based Infrastructure Interoperability via existing standards is the primary way Chandler accesses data Full IMAP, POP, SMTP, and LDAP support utilizing SASL, TLS and Kerberos as underlying security framework Data Compositing allows richer Chandler meta- data to co-exist with standards data Pragmatic support for emerging standards such as CAP and Shibboleth

Robust Security Framework Based on existing standards and best practices such as TLS for transport layer security and SASL for authentication Pluggable security extensions and policy framework which allow each institution to customize own safety vs. convenience trade-offs Low end-user administration overhead to ensure security is practiced and transparent where achievable.

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Next Steps Seeking commitment by CSG members to collaborate on Westwood development Develop funding proposal to Mellon Foundation based on Westwood development plan