April 21, 2023

MACE-MLIST Working Group

Jill Gemmill, UAB (chair)

John-Paul Robinson, UAB

Jim Phelps, UWisc

Paul Russell, Notre Dame

Serge Aumont, CRU

MACE-MLIST CHARTER

Research the issues surrounding middleware-enablement of mailing list services.

• document how to perform this integration• provide forums where people can learn and help each other

in addressing these integration issues within campus contexts.

• collaborate with open source communities • enterprise/federation.

The WG will consider and implement a survey of current university mailing list users

The WG will include persons who are actively working on integration with the enterprise/federation using non-proprietary technology; experiences will be shared regarding application designs best supporting infrastructure. Working group members will test-drive pilot/prototype solutions.

Outline

1. Summary of MACE-MLIST Accomplishments since Fall 2004 MM

Mailing List Administrator Survey Results Domain Model and Sympa NMI R6 contribution: Middleware Integration with

Existing Applications: Current Design Issues, with a Focus on Mailing Lists

2. Summary of myVOCS (my Virtual Organization Collaboration Suite)

3. Mailing list software in the war against spam

Mailing List Administrator Survey

Survey Results Summary

Conclusions

Domain Model and Sympa

http://middleware.internet2.edu/mlist/docs/SympaModel2.pdf

(thanks to Jim Phelps, UWisc and CRU)

NMI R6 contribution:

Middleware Integration with Existing Applications: Current Design Issues, with a Focus on Mailing Lists

myVOCS

Summary of myVOCS (my Virtual Organization Collaboration Suite)

Survey of VO’s planned in near future.

Mailing list software in the war against spam

1. Learn about new approaches proposed to controlling SPAM

2. Would it be nice to have a common technical approach among (open source) mailing list developers?• What would be benefits to end

users?• What would be benefits to developers?

3.“best practices” ? “standard”? Other suggestions?