[OGSA-AUTHZ] CfP: Ottawa Workshop on "New Challenges for Access Control"

[Frank Siebenlist]

As I know that access control and related policies are high on our 
agendas, the attached may be of interest.

Securely yours and Happy Holidays,
Frank.


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Call for Presentations

Ottawa Workshop on: "New Challenges for Access Control"

Present day information technology architectures can enable new business 
models and reduce the cost of doing business. However, legislative and 
regulatory pressures impose severe penalties on those who exploit these 
architectures without due consideration to privacy and integrity. 
Unfortunately, current technology is insufficient for addressing the new 
access control challenges and this has led to a renewed interest in 
effective approaches for addressing these challenges.

The information security community is seeking new, innovative techniques 
to help it navigate this minefield with cost-effective tools for 
managing access control and privacy policies and enforcing them 
consistently across a broad range of applications, including email, file 
transfer, the Web and Web services, removable media, instant messaging, 
databases and repositories.

Recent developments in access control and privacy include the 
development of a standard model for role-based access control, standard 
expression languages for specifying access control policies and the 
application of access control methods to structured resources, such as

• XML documents,
• personally-identifiable information,
• digital rights,
• interfaces in a service-oriented architecture,
• delegation of permissions,
• role-based access control,
• networks and computers and
• business-process workflow.

The Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation, in collaboration with 
Entrust Inc., the Université du Québec en Outaouais and the University 
of Ottawa is holding a one-day workshop entitled “New Challenges for 
Access Control” in Ottawa on 27th April 2005. The workshop will provide 
an opportunity for practitioners and researchers to share their ideas 
and experiences on such topics as:

• Access control requirements,
• Access control models,
• Access control policy expression languages,
• Access control and privacy policies
• Access control architectures,
• Policy management architectures and
• Tools for developing and analyzing access control and privacy policies.

Proposals covering any of the following aspects are encouraged.

• Research,
• Implementation experience,
• Applications and
• Case studies.

Tutorial and review presentations are also welcome.

The program committee invites you to submit a proposal for a 
presentation or panel discussion that addresses one or more of the above 
topics. The program committee may adapt or restructure proposals 
submitted in order to ensure an interesting and technically compelling 
program. The main selection criterion will be that the abstract provides 
a clear and complete presentation of some important aspect of the 
workshop topics.

Presentations will be 30 minutes in duration, including question and 
answer time.

Panel sessions will be 50 minutes in duration. Proposals for panels 
should include the title, 3 to 4 potential panelists (name and/or role) 
and proposed format (e.g. Q&A, short presentations, etc.).

The organizers will publish proceedings of the workshop. Authors should 
arrange for any necessary releases for publication prior to submission 
of their proposal.

To submit a proposal, please send the following information by email to 
ncac05 at entrust.com:

• The full contact details (name, affiliation, email, phone, postal 
address) of one presenter who will act as the primary contact for the 
presentation or panel discussion,
• The full list of authors,
• A 1-page abstract outlining the subject and key points of your 
presentation or panel discussion or
• A short slide presentation on the topic.

All submissions will be acknowledged.


Important dates:

Abstract deadline 4 Feb 2005

Presenter notification 3 Mar 2005

Slides deadline 14 Apr 2005

Workshop 27 Apr 2005


The program committee consists of the following

• Carlisle Adams (U of O)
• Kamel Adi (UQO)
• Anne Anderson (Sun Microsystems)
• Eugen Bacic (Cinnabar)
• Dan Craigen (ORA)
• Petre Dini (CISCO)
• Ramiro Liscano (U of O)
• Luigi Logrippo (UQO)
• Tim Moses (Entrust)
• Seth Proctor (Sun Microsystems)
• Steve Zeber (DRDC)

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Frank Siebenlist               franks at mcs.anl.gov
The Globus Alliance - Argonne National Laboratory