[saml-dev] Dry Run @ Sun

[Don Bowen <don.bowen@sun.com>]

I am afraid that I have some bad news about the dry run here at Sun. We 
will be in a room in our training center because of all the people that 
are coming and all the machines. It was the only place that could 
accomodate us and deal with the security issues. Unfortunately, we won't 
have any internet access in that room. I am busy working to see if we 
can get internet access from another location, still living within the 
security constraints, but can't promise anything. Make sure that your 
hotel has high-speed internet connections. From my discussions with Rob 
Philpott I am hoping that we can avoid needing one, but I realize this 
will really disappoint many of you that were hoping to sneak email 
reading (and stock trading :-) into that time frame. It was just 
unavoidable. If you knew the flaming hoops I've had to go through to 
even make it possible you would understand :-)

To deal with the certificate issues we may need to set up our own local 
CA (probably using our CMS product) and this will also mean that the two 
dry runs will have different root certs. To deal with this we can either 
have the 4 companies from the east make requests of the Sun CA at 
Catalyst and then import our root or we can both just import each others 
root certs. If there is more to it than that, forgive my stale PKI 
knowledge.

As far as start time, I will plan to be at Building 15, where you will 
enter, at 8:30am. I have asked the SunU manager to make sure our room 
can be locked and only opened by request from Bhavna or myself, 
realizing that some of you may still decide to take your machines out of 
the room each night.

As far as having a "checklist" for the event, I'm not aware of one and 
have to say that I have not put anything together. This needs to be 
done, even if only at a macro level. Does anyone want to volunteer? One 
of the key discussion points for the call on Tuesday should be how the 
attendees will experience the demo.

If there are issues relating to the dry run at Sun that I have 
overlooked, please ask soon. I've had no ability to send email for most 
of the day and it is very frustrating.

Don;