InCommon Library Services

At 10:45 AM -0400 11/2/07, David Kennedy wrote:
> Steven,
>
> Thank you for setting this up.  I am still uncomfortable with our 
> group focusing so much on mod_auth_location as a solution.  I 
> understand that one of our goals is to "sell" shibboleth to 
> libraries.  And I understand that mod_auth_location helps with the 
> IP address management problem, but it does so by degrading the user 
> experience to less than what we have today.  I don't think that 
> library administrators are going to get excited about this tradeoff.
>
> On the other hand, our group has done some valuable work with 
> ezproxy.  I think we should be promoting the hell out of this tool.
>
> To be honest, I can't make a strong argument for selling shibboleth 
> to libraries, except that it is the most elegant single sign on 
> solution.  That was a strong enough argument for us to implement 
> shibboleth.  But, I do not see shibboleth as a complete access 
> management solution for online resources.  Ezproxy already does a 
> better job than shibboleth can do on its own.

let's talk about this on the call....

I think they solve different problems... they can be used 
independently, they can be used together, in a variety of ways....