1. Vidmid Session Overview
10:00 am edt - Ken (Boulder) Welcome, etiquette, session outline, work to date, NMI investment
10:15 am edt - Egon Verharen(Amsterdam) scenarios and workplan for videoconferencing
10:30 am edt - Mairead Martin (UTK) scenarios and workplan for video on demand
10:45 am edt - Mary Trauner (Georgia Tech) 10 min - video and medical middleware
10:55 am edt - Break
11:05 am edt - Video conferencing BoF – Egon (Amsterdam)
11:55 am edt - Break
12:05 pm edt - Video on demand BoF – Mairead (UTK)

2. Background Vidmid formed in early 2001
Spent some time naming and scoping
Cast a wide net for important activities within video that needed middleware
Critical insight and momentum from ViDe leaders - Jill Gemmill, UAB; Tyler Johnson, UNC; Mairead Martin, UTK; Egon Verharen (Surfnet); Grace Agnew (Ga. Tech.), Mary Fran Yafchek (SURA), Marcus Buchhorn (ANU) and others. (
Focus now on videoconferencing and video-on-demand for their middleware requirements
Significant component of NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI)

3. Key folks Egon Verharen - chair of Videoconferencing
Tyler Johnson, UNC
Albert School, OARnet
Mairead Martin - chair of Video-on-demand
Steve Olshansky - flywheel extraordinaire
DirT - directory services leadership - Keith Hazelton, Michael Gettes, Tom Barton, Richard Jones
Scott Cantor, Steven Carmody, RL “Bob” Morgan - Shibboleth leadership

4. A Map of Middleware

5. Core Middleware Areas
Identifiers - syntax, semantics, reuse and reassignment policies
Authentication - best practices for I and A, Web-ISO, Shibboleth
Directories - structures, objectclasses, metadirectories, large-scale directories, resource discovery, interrealm, groups
Authorization - access control mechanisms, Shibboleth
PKI - for encryption, authentication, signing

6. Identity Services on One Slide
Objectclass
standards
(e.g.eduPerson,
gridperson,
eduOrg)
Content
Portals
Shibboleth
exchange of
attributes
Future
PKI
DODHE
et al
Grids
et al
Interrealm
Learning
Management
Systems
Security Domain
Personal
Portals
Video
client
Web services
and
servers
Enterprise
video
dir
WebISO
Enterprise directory
Campus authentication
Future PKI

7. NSF Middleware Initiative
Three year cooperative agreement between NSF and two teams:
Internet2/EDUCAUSE/SURA
GRIDs Center
Goals are to promote a consistent and comprehensive middleware infrastructure that enables science and research and assists in a wider deployment throughout the higher ed community
First year targets:
Directories
Security
Videoconferencing