Open Stack

  Hi,

Unsure if this is interesting also to consider under the keystone project:

http://www.w3.org/wiki/Foaf+ssl

This is more for social web, but might be interesting for user 
authentication.

Regards
James


On 5/26/11 9:04 AM, Ziad Sawalha wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
>
> It's been a while since the summit in Santa Clara. It was great 
> meeting with everyone who was there – looking forward to the next one!
>
> Since the summit, we've been working on Keystone and figuring out how 
> to integrate it into OpenStack (Nova, Swift, Glance, and the 
> dashboard). There has been much activity on the project. The code, 
> design, and API has been changing daily. Anyone interested, please 
> join us.
>
> *_RELEASE 1_*
> Milestone 1 for Diablo is right around the corner already! The goal 
> remains to create a common auth system supporting existing use cases. 
> There are a couple of proposals we'd like community input on before we 
> get too far into the implementation:
>
>    1. API spec
>    2. Scope of first release
>
> *API Spec*
> We've published an API spec doc which we've been altering as requests 
> come in for changes. The spec includes proposals for a core API that 
> covers:
>
>     * tokens: for authentication
>     * tenants: for isolating and grouping resources to support
>       multi-tenancy
>     * users: because we have to!
>     * roles: to support the Nova roles (see
>       http://nova.openstack.org/runnova/managing.users.html for roles
>       and users)
>     * credentials: to address the EC2, Rackspace auth,
>       multiple-credentials question
>
> The draft spec is on github and includes both the core APIs and 
> additional extensions needed to make Keystone function as a 
> stand-alone system. We'd like to lock it down as soon as is 
> feasible. R1 is too close (June 2nd) so we probably won't be done by 
> then, but aiming for Friday June 10th gives us a good couple of weeks 
> to get there and then a couple of weeks to firm up implementation and 
> tests, so we should be able to hit R2 with a locked down API.
>
>
> *Scope of R1*
> For the first Diablo milestone, we're aiming to support the user 
> stories listed in http://wiki.openstack.org/KeystoneR1
>
>
> *_ANNOUNCEMENTS_*
>
> *Repo*
> We're moving the source to the Rackspace repo (mainly because we can 
> add multiple admins). Please start using the new repo. I will keep 
> both in sync for a while.
>
> https://github.com/rackspace/keystone/
>
> I was able to change my config with those commands:
>
>     git remote rm origin
>     git remote add origin -m master -t master
>     https://your/-login/@github.com/rackspace/keystone.git
>
>
> As you open new issues, please use the Rackspace repo.
>
> *Participate*
> If you're interested in joining the team and working on Keystone, we'd 
> love the input and help. Just let me know. And, of course, anyone is 
> welcome to submit code, blueprints, issues, etc…
>
> Looking forward to hearing from ya'll.
>
> Ziad
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