Minutes: SALSA NetAuth call 3-Aug-06

*Attendees*

Chris Misra, U. Massachusetts (chair)
Rich Cropp, Penn State U.
Walt Reynolds, U. Michigan
Renee Frost, Internet2
Steve Olshansky, Internet2
Katherine Strojny, Internet2 (scribe)

*Action Items*

New:

[AI] {Chris} will arrange a NetAuth working group meeting for the Fall Member Meeting.

Carry Over:

[AI] {Chris and Kevin} will talk to Kevin Miller about how to link the NetAuth and FWNA wikis in order to facilitate development of 802.1X
content.

[AI] {Group} will collaborate to draft 802.1X deployment documents via wiki.

[AI] {Anyone} who has slides or content related to NetAuth use cases or case studies, send them to SteveO for posting on the NetAuth
website.

*Discussion*

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Discussion included a review of action items, 802.1X document progress, an NEA update, and NetAuth activities at the Fall Member Meeting. Minutes of the last meeting were approved.

Proposals are due August 31 for the Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting (4-7 Dec 2006, Chicago). Current plans for the Fall Member Meeting include sessions on NetAuth and Trusted Network Connect (TNC). If you are interested in speaking on a NetAuth topic, please contact Chris. More information about the call for participation can be found here:     http://events.internet2.edu/2006/fall-mm/calls.cfm

Will there be NetAuth working group meeting as well? Yes, a working group meeting will probably take place Tuesday at 7:30 am. [AI] Chris will set this up.

Chris briefly reviewed 802.1X document progress. The goal of the effort is to produce a document suitable for the general audience covering components, tradeoffs, and implementation scenarios. During the FWNA call, discussion indicated that the NetAuth is still a good home for the 802.1X documentation effort. Recent progress is slow due to summer travel schedules.

Chris gave an update on Network Endpoint Assessment (NEA). On 2-Aug-06, Chris and Kevin met with Steve Hanna of Juniper Networks, co-chair of NEA and TNC, to talk about NetAuth participation in standards development underway in NEA and TNC. TNC is the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) effort to define an open architecture for ensuring endpoint integrity, including standardizing inter-agent communication for host validation.

Where will NetAuth standardization efforts fall with respect to NEA and TCG? The question still stands, and the outcome depends to some
extent on whether NEA becomes chartered within IETF. NEA currently faces the challenge of coming to a consensus on scope before it can become a chartered working group in IETF. TCG-TNC is moving a little more quickly on standards development, but since it is a membership organization, development is perhaps not as open.

The net result of the meeting is that there is potential for NetAuth involvement in both groups, and efforts will continue toward establishing involvement. In addition, plans were formed to do a TNC session with Steve (possibly joint with NetAuth) at the Fall 2006 Member Meeting.

The next call is scheduled for 17-Aug-06 at 1300 EDT. Agenda and bridge will be sent to the list prior to the call. The 31-Aug-06 call is likely to be cancelled.