Every so often, I need to list all of the things that I’ve got going on just so I can get a handle on them. This is that list:
Internet2 Collaboration Tools Phone Call 4 October 2005
### Attendees: George Brett, Steve Olshanski, John-Paul Robinson, Jim Phelps
George: Opening comment about presentation “Identity 2.0” at OSCON 2005
### Shift in Identity discusion
Students provide a lot of personal information on Facebook but they also turn on the FERPA flags to protect their information from “the institution”. Steve asked about Linked In.
Movement towards people being responsible for their own attributes and expression of their attributes.
### Agenda:
1. Review the notes from I2FMM on Jim’s blog.
2. Follow up from the I2FMM – what are the next steps.
3. Using the I2FMM and Internet2 tags.
4. Spring Member Meeting – a set of tags.
Confirming our World View
We have a 15 month old Labradoodle named Lola who sleeps on the floor in our room. We are watching Sushi for our friends who are house hunting in North Carolina. Sushi sleeps in the TV room which is directly below our room in her crate.
Last night Sushi woke up at 2:30 AM and began to cry, whimper and whine. Ena and I waited patiently for her to stop crying. The last thing I wanted to do was to reinforce that crying gets her attention. She had woken up when Ena got up to use the W.C. as they say over the pond.
We listened for about a half an hour to her plaintive cries. Then I said to Lola, “Lola. Go take care of Sushi”. Lola got up, padded down the hall and down the stairs and through the kitchen. Sushi’s cries let up and quite returned to the house. A couple of minutes later, Lola padded back through the kitchen and back upstairs and back to bed.
“Siiigh” wag wag wag kerplop, Lola went back sleep on the rug.
Ena and I were amazed. “She did it!”
This just confirmed our world view that Lola is the smartest and best dog in the world. Further proof!
– Jim
Friend Clouds
Good friends of ours; Julian, Marilyn and Darien Lombardi; are moving away to North Carolina for new jobs at Duke. The opportunities that they were offered sound wonderful and I can’t blame them at all for accepting their offers. I was thinking about how friends move away and how unstable our society is now.
My parents got married during World War II. When the “boys came home”, they went off to college at University of Utah with their friends. All of them lived together in married student housing. After graduating, the whole gang moved to Salt Lake City into the same neighborhood – Rose Park. This group was friends for the rest of my parent’s lives – 50 years I would guess. They got together for dinner and parties. They went through the bridge craze of the 70s and the original tiki party phase. They were together for almost their whole lives. They could talk and compare their life trajectories and the changes and shifts in their beings. They had people who knew them when they were “young” and whom they watched grow old. The had partners on this long path we walk.
I have friends from my childhood: Brian Durney who I first met when I was 4 years old, John Millsaps who I met at 15, Bill Lockhart (who is my brother’s wife’s brother) who I’ve known since I was 12 or so. I occasionally see these people. We have been scattered to the winds… well, John didn’t scatter too far – he is still in Salt Lake and Brian did scatter to the winds but he has returned to Utah, Bill is off-and-of in Utah. OK. I’ve been scattered to the winds. There. I confess.
I had a tight group of friends in Palo Alto, California. Jen is now in L.A.. Michelle is in Hawaii. Kat has disappeared but is rumored to be in Woodside, CA. Lisa works in L.A. and lives in Mountain View (that crazy kid). I have had off-and-of contact with Michelle and Lisa via chat (instant messaging). Jen has sent Christmas notes. But, that group was also scattered to the winds.
Ena and I had tight friends in Corvallis, OR. Peggy was killed in a car wreck. Others moved to Seattle. We moved away.
And now here in Madison. We had formed a good circle of friends. Mairead and Sharon, Julian and Marilyn, Keith and Kathleen, Scott and Gloria. Two of the pairs have separated. Julian and Marilyn are moving away. Scott took another job that has kept him very busy so we lost social contact for the Summer.
It seems that the circles of friends form and crack like ice on the rivers. We gather and have strength. We tighten and can carry each other then the heat comes and everything cracks and chunks flow away.
I envy the elder generation who had those lifelong friends to share their aging and growing, who saw each other’s children grow, who were there when times were tough or delightful. When I think back to all of the weddings in our family – the same crowd was there on the Phelps side. I saw the same crowd at the funerals for both my parents.
We may be upwardly mobile in our carriers but what a deficit we have wrought upon friendships.
We will miss you dearly Julian, Marilyn and Darien.
Starting a new blog
Hi All,
I have a few blogs in my life that I maintain: two work blogs – one public blog called I.T. Architect in Academia and one private blog that I use to store my notes from meetings, an old personal blog called iMind – a place outside my head at .Mac and now this new personal blog.
I have been traveling for work and pleasure a lot recently. My old personal blog was driven by the iBlog application. iBlog is a desktop blogging app that you then sync with .Mac. If you blog from just one computer, then iBlog works pretty well. Hacking the layout is a bit painful. Integration of other applications is tough too. I found that I just couldn’t blog when I wanted to because I was on the road and that I could integrate the other pieces of my digital life as easily as I wanted.
Thus. iMind version 2.0 is born.
Welcome.
Grab the RSS feed and follow along.
– Jim
Identity Assertions, Extending Services and my Cell Phone
When my cell phone rings, I flip open the cover and check the phone number of the caller. If the caller’s number is blocked or is not in my address book, I usually let the call go to voice mail. If the caller leaves a message, I listen to the message and then decide whether or not I will call them back. This is a simple case of Identity Assertion, Checking Access Rights and Extending Service.
I2FMM Signet Grouper meeting 2005
Lynn McRae (Stanford) talking about the roadmap for Signet.
Tom Barton (U Chicago) discussing Grouper.
Internet2 Fall Member Meeting –
MLIST Meeting at Internet2 Fall Member meeting 2005
Mlist Working Group Meeting
Serge Olivier discussing the Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) anti-spam systems.
Craig Hancock discussing RPM packages for Linux installs.
I2FMM Collaboration Tools Presentation 2005
My Presentation can be downloaded from the Internet2 Fall Member Meeting site as a PDF .
My opening comments are included in my PDF.
George Brett’s opening comments:
1. The recent Wizards Meeting used wiki’s for real-time posting of notes and documents. This was a shift from the usual – mailing list and weekly phone call.
1. Ineternet2 has many communities of interest. Those communities can aggregate to form larger communities. You can imagine a vin diagram of nested and overlapping circles that represents these groups.
1. He will be listening to see what these people think about these topics and to look for direction for Internet2’s collaboration and communication.
JPR’s Demo of MyVOCS.
Discussion Portion of the Meeting
Jim Phelps 
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