InC-Lib-Vendor

[Ann West <>]

Kent,

Interesting points. 

I'd like to add a couple of opportunities that may help shed light on two of 
your items:

> c. Should we also develop a Best Practise for newer vendor
> participants focusing on best SAML 2.0 design? - would that have
> implications on the client (IdP) side? Perhaps, we could find out a
> bit more from the JISC planning team who are looking at Shib 1.3 –
> Shib 2.0 transition too.

At Educause two weeks ago, Nicole Harris, JISC's Federated Services Manager, 
offered to help us connect the InC-Library group with theirs in the UK. 
As you know, they've done some interesting studies on the content provider 
useability experience and have recommendations in this space. Starting a 
dialog with them would help ensure the practice set is spot on 
internationally. 

> BTW, Norman Wiseman, Head of Services and Outreach, JISC, presented
> Lessons from the United Kingdom's Experience with Federated Access
> Management (click for video/slides of session) at EDUCAUSE 2009. One
> of the things he talks about is that JISC is concerned about the
> shortcomings of eduPerson and that they are planning to revise it. In
> a conversation afterwards, limitations of “entitlement” assertion was
> one of the issues they want to address. Norman talked about doing this
> revision with REFeds so that it is internationally recognized and
> adopted by multinational vendors.

There's a discussion going on between REFeds and MACE-Dir about updates to 
eduPerson. If you'd like to follow that thread, subscription information can 
be found at http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/. For those of you new to 
this space, MACE-Dir is the group that developed the schema.

Best,
Ann