Cartel 2000 Agenda

Tuesday, August 8

8:15 Shuttle pickup from University Inn
8:30 - 8:45 Coffee, breakfast, schmoozing
8:45 - 9:15 Introductions, logistics, agenda bashing
9:15 - 10:30 Networking I: wireless, access control, QoS, VoIP, ...
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:00 Networking II: network management, firewalls, VPNs
* Network management system development, Sean Vaughan, UW
12:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:45 File systems and services: AFS, NFSv4, Samba, CIFS
* Q&A via phone with IBM/Transarc and CMU on AFS futures
* IntelliMirror, BJ Whalen, Microsoft
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:45 Incident response, forensics, intrusion detection, secure Linux distribution
* Forensics tools, Dave Dittrich, UW
4:45 Shuttle departs from UHC to University Inn
5:30 Shuttle departs University Inn to Pier 55 for cruise
6:00 Board Argosy Cruises boat
6:30 Sailing time; full cash bar; hors d'ouevres and dinner buffet
9:00 Shuttle departs Pier 55 for University Inn

Wednesday, August 9

8:15 Shuttle pickup from University Inn
8:30 - 8:45 Coffee, breakfast, schmoozing
8:45 - 10:30 Kerberos: for Macintosh, Win2000, KX509, smartcards, secure KDC key storage
* Kerberos for Macintosh development, Scott McGuire, MIT
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:00 User management, diverse users, directory services, passwords
* Internet2/MACE activities, RL "Bob" Morgan, UW
12:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:45 Windows
* Microsoft Meta-directory Services, Kim Cameron, Microsoft
* Nebula managed Windows desktop service, James Morris, UW
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00 Central services: email, calendar, web publishing, etc
4:00 - 5:00 Authorization
5:00 Shuttle departs from UHC to University Inn
  (No planned evening activities)

Thursday, August 10

8:15 Shuttle pickup from University Inn
8:30 - 8:45 Coffee, breakfast, schmoozing
8:45 - 10:30 Staffing, planning, organization
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:00 App development, web apps, portals, languages, webmail, ...
12:00 Box lunches
  End of planned agenda


Previously contributed random topics and questions


Liaisons

* What's happening with groups/projects like: Internet2 (MACE, etc),
  CSG, CITI, IETF, JA-SIG, DLF, Kerberos, etc, etc?

Networking

* Wireless, ie 802.11b:  what service models are reasonable/feasible;
  policies about who owns the airspace; multi-vendor compatibility;
  classrooms; the Bluetooth problem; etc;

* Access-controlled nets, in particular for 802.11b:  802.1x standard;
  802.1x client implementations; Kerberos/RADIUS support/interop;
  service models; authenticating the access point; etc;

* Firewalls and VPNs:  More and more departments are asking for them,
  at various points in the network.  Do we install/support?
  Recommend?  Resist?  Recommend/design/support alternatives?

* other:  multicast, VoIP, QoS, ISP arrangements, cable/DSL, etc

Systems

* platform/language support:  Win*, *IX*, MacOS*, PDAs; C/C++/C#,
  Java, Perl, Python, Scheme; XML, salvation or panacea?

* managing zillions of clients: does Win2000 help?  new "thin clients"
  like Linux-based Xterm replacements?

* AFS:  moribund or merely senile; NFSv4 or other things to the rescue?

* message-queue infrastructure for data distribution?

* new horizons in ID and account management:  supporting alums and
  other "e-commerce"-driven user populations; accounts for life;
  single ID for multiple disparate uses; disk quotas obsolete?

* directory service:  schema standards, architecture, access control,
  application uses of directory; choice of DS vendor

* authorization:  authz service; common authz management across apps;
  directory as authz info repository

* Windows 2000:  dessert topping or floor wax

Security infrastructure

* Kerberos status:  will anyone ever migrate off of v4?  etc

* PKI deployments/planning

* intrusion detection, incident response:  new approaches?

Apps

* email:  any growth of real secure email?  decent web-based mail UIs?
  systems of choice for user-managed mailing lists, archives, etc.
  deployment of authenticated SMTP; Cyrus status, secure group
  folders, filtering, mailbox location, ACAP

* web-based apps:  are sites choosing common infrastructures, eg J2EE,
  Zope, IIS/ASP?  status of portal developments; limitations of
  browsers;  authentication

* notification:  Zephyr, IM?

* calendaring

* cool new apps?  Napster?

Other

* the hiring/staffing thing

* sysadmin culture:  UNIX vs Windows, cooperation vs competition

* project planning, architecture planning