There are a total of 30 members most of which are R1 institutions but there are some organizations. The group meets about four times a year and it offers workshops on selected topics followed by a business meeting. The topics covered during the workshops at the recent meeting were on Teaching and Learning, and on Portals. The business meeting covered Internet2, middleware, digital certificates, and password guidelines. There was a brief conversation on the Netscape directory product that is now called the iPlanet directory.
Pricing is a major issue.
Update on Authentication Software Deployment Rob Carter gave an update on the implementation of Transarc's DCE product and of Snareworks. Rob stated that OIT is ready to broadly rollout the implementation of the new system. Rob demonstrated the product using a Windows NT client with the Snareworks client product installed. Snareworks is based on DCE and DCE uses Kerberos 5. Rob pointed out that the software improves security while providing greater usability to the users.