Shibboleth gets noticed by Jon Udell

While I was gone on vacation, Infoworld's Jon Udell had a nice posting about Shibboleth, the Internet2 Middleware project developing technologies to support inter-institutional authentication and authorization for web-based resources.

Shib is an excellent example of the continuing tradition of the higher education and research IT community moving forward to solve complex networking problems while the large commercial interests agonize and argue (see in this space, for instance, the years of wrangling between Microsoft and Sun about Liberty vs. Passport).