InCommon Library Services

Project Leader: Steve Carmody, Brown University (Steven_Carmody@brown.edu)
Project Wiki: https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/inclibrary

Five schools are looking at adopting Shibboleth as a replacement for IP-based access control: Penn State, the University of Chicago, Cornell, Brown, and the University of California at San Diego. A working group is identifying the set of issues and plans to have two or so schools in production this fall (2007).

One question involves handling the transition, involving the vendors, between Shib-enabled and IP-based access control. This will need to be done so as not to disrupt the browser experience, but understanding that not all vendors will support Shib at once. Once that issue is resolved, there needs to be a way to assure the schools and vendors that the transition will work.

Resources and Information from other federations

JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) (United Kingdom)
Terena_mtg_publishers.ppt