Shibboleth: Motivations
- Library/Publisher/Content-Provider problem
- Many materials provided to campus users via site-license
- Site licenses mostly managed by IP-level controls
- Providers want scalability, better security
- Campuses want ease of use, ease of compliance
- Similar projects elsewhere
- UK Sparta Project, EU Rediris, NL Giganet
- DLF PKI-based access
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- Related industry work
- OASIS Security-Services TC
- IBM support
- Problems with large-scale client-cert PKI
- Cert profile differences
- Privacy vs well-known identifiers in certs
- Browser issues
- Shared client machines
- All that legal junk
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