InC-Lib-Vendor

[David Kennedy <>]

I am writing because, in the survey that you recently took for the 
InCommon Library Services Collaboration, you indicated for at least one of 
the vendors in our list that you would be willing to sign a letter asking 
that vendor to federate.  Our group intends to start sending these 
invitation letters (actually emails) to vendors on or around January 15th. 
 I have attached a draft of the email that will be sent.

Based on your survey response, we will be putting your name and 
institution on the bottom of the email unless you tell me differently. For 
any given vendor, your name and institution will appear alongside between 
10 and 20 other institutions, based on survey responses.  And you will be 
copied on correspondence.  Note that the invitation letter does not 
obligate you to do anything, but we believe that your support will help 
vendors see the value in joining InCommon.

I would like to personally thank you for joining together with other 
universities in this effort and participating to benefit the entire 
InCommon community. 
Please let me, or the inc-lib-vendor group, know if you have any questions 
or concerns.  Also, we will leave time at the end of the Jan 15th webinar 
for questions and discussion.

Thank you
Dave Kennedy




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David Kennedy
Application Developer
Perkins Library, Duke University
(919) 613-6831
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I am writing you on behalf of ______ University and the other universities 
listed at the end of this email.  We are all committed to the concept of 
federated identity management and federated access to licensed resources.  
Hence, we have implemented the Shibboleth technology at our respective 
institutions (which have all also joined the InCommon federation).

We have noticed that you have implemented Shibboleth/SAML within your product 
line, and are using the technology to provide federated access to your 
services within the UK Access Management Federation.  We, collectively, would 
like to invite you to also join the InCommon federation so that we, as well, 
will be able to federate with you.  You provide valuable services to our user 
communities, and we would like to begin integrating those services with the 
single sign on infrastructures we have invested in at our respective 
institutions.

______ University would like to be your sponsor for membership into InCommon 
and help facilitate the process.  We can provide guidance in terms of 
federation policies and best practices.  We also have  a willing group of 
universities that should be able to help with testing and implementation, and 
we can help coordinate that as well.

If you are interested, we can set up a conference call to discuss some of the 
details and initiate the process.

Thank you,
_______________

_____________, ________ University
_____________, ________ University
_____________, ________ University
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