Michael Gettes, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Ken Klingenstein, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Michael R. Gettes
Michael has been with Georgetown since August, 1999 in a leading role for network and compute services development and deployment University-wide. Previously, he played a similar role at Princeton University for over 10 years. Michael has been involved with network technology in Higher Education since 1981 and has played major roles in the development of BITNET & CREN and now works closely with the Internet2 Middleware initiative and is a member of MACE working in the Directory / eduPerson, Shibboleth and HEPKI project areas. Michael is also actively involved in establishing a Bridge Certificate Authority for Higher Education (HEBCA supported by EDUCAUSE) which will interoperate with the Federal Bridge CA (FBCA). Michael has many years of operational experience with LDAP and directory enabled applications such as central e-mail systems, alumni services, white pages and associated security, policy and privacy issues for Higher Education. He has written papers, developed software and presentations, and is an active participant in the Georgetown Institute for Information Assurance, TERENA, Net@EDU PKI, Federal PKI TWG and the Common Solutions Group (CSG). Visit the GIIA Internet2 projects page to see some of the current work.

Ken Klingenstein
Dr. Ken Klingenstein is Project Director for the Internet2 Middleware Initiative and Chief Technologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In his Internet2 role, Klingenstein is responsible for disseminating middleware developments, fostering interoperability through standards and workshops, capturing best practices, working with corporations and vendors to create products for use in higher education, and being a liaison to national and international organizations interested in the development of middleware. As Chief Technologist, he continues to provide technical strategic leadership for information technology for the campus where he served as Director of Information Technology Service for fourteen years. Klingenstein has been active in national and regional networking for many years, serving as Chair of the Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee, Board member for CAUSE and CREN, Chair of Westnet and Colorado Supernet, and member of the UCAID Networking Planning and Policy Council, among other roles. Dr. Klingenstein received his Ph.D. in Applied Math from the University of California at Berkeley.