InCommon Library Services

[David Kennedy <>]

>At 10:15 AM -0400 4/3/09, John M. Kiser wrote:
>>In other words, what's unclear to me, and what I want to remain
mindful
>>of, is 1) how vendors participating in InCommon go about implementing
>>"Shib enabled"; and 2) where are there possibilities
for this group to
>>inform vendors' efforts to realize the promise of federated SSO.
>>Ideally, Shib could move into place with a minimum of change in
how
>>researchers get what they need.
>
>re this specific question, I think a NISO working group ( 
>http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/authentication09/
; click on 
>Additional resources, and then look at "A Proposed NISO Work Item
") 
>is working on the "consistent interface at the vendor" issue.
Adam 
>Chandler from Cornell is a member of both this group and the NISO 
>group -- and has generously volunteered to serve as a conduit between
>the groups.

I agree with John that our group should be making
recommenations/
requirements for how vendors participating in InCommon
go about
implementing "Shib enabled".  For instance,
in order to use the 
ezproxy/shib scenario that we came up with in Phase
I, vendors 
need to implement SessionInitiators, and I don't think
all vendors
are doing that consistently.