InC-Lib-Vendor

[David Kennedy <>]

Dear Ulrike,

I am writing you on behalf of Duke 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, or are implementing, 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.

Duke 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 for your time and consideration
Dave

David Kennedy, Duke University

Andy Ingham, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Adam Chandler, Cornell University
John Ober, California Digital Library
Ken Varnum, University of Michigan
John Kiser, University of Pennsylvania
Joan Parker, Cal State, Moss Landing Marine Labs
Curtis Carr, Virginia Tech
Paul Soderdahl, University of Iowa
Tod Olson, University of Chicago
Thomas Howell, Northwestern University
Anne Nolan, Brown University
Julia Kochi, University of California, San Francisco
Theodora Toy, University of California, Riverside
Emily Lin, Jim Dooley, University of California, Merced

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David Kennedy
Application Developer
Perkins Library, Duke University
(919) 613-6831