InC-Lib-Vendor

["Kent Percival" <>]

Ann West wrote:
> 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.

Usability is certainly one of the keys to encouraging adoption and 
collaboration 
across the federations is vital.  Since a lot of the JISC federation work 
surrounds their "Collections" activities, usability fits very closely with 
the 
deployment of federation in libraries.

In the same spirit of collaboration, it would be helpful to get Nicole's take 
on 
how UK AMF (JISC) is planning to tackle the transition from Shibboleth 1.3 to 
a 
SAML 2 compliant federation.   Does it sync with InCommon's roadmap to 
achieve 
SAML 2 compliance?  Not only does SAML compliance provide wider 
interoperability, 
but new SAML 2 functionality may provide better ways of doing things, 
especially 
for WAYFless services.

JISC's documentation is very Shibboleth centric so their path may be to move 
to 
Shibboleth 2.0 first and then permit other non-Shibboleth IdPs and SPs 
interoperate.  However, at least a couple of their large SPs are planning to 
transition to non-Shibboleth SP platforms.  In the CAF we've already had a 
couple 
of issues with suppliers trying to use Sun OpenSSO and Oracles IdM suite 
which are 
not backward compatible with Shibboleth 1.3.   Federation transition plans 
and 
vendor developments need to be in step to avoid confusion on the IdP side.

....Kent
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