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["Timothy Mori" <>]

I'm not on that list, so I can't reply there. It's an odd question. It's the first time I've seen EZProxy referred to as a SSO solution.  He may not realize that most of those EZProxy installations are using some old campus-level or locally created CGI-based authentication.

 

Tim

 

 

 

Timothy S. Mori
Systems Librarian for Enterprise Operations
IT Department
North Carolina State University Libraries
Campus Box 7111
Raleigh, NC 27695-7111
919.515.6182 (phone)

>>> <> 2/9/2010 3:44 PM >>>
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>Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:03:02 +0000
>From: NODA Hideaki <>
>Subject: EZProxy v. Shibboleth?
>To:
>
>Dear all;
>
>   Our UPKI-fed, the Japanese access management federation, regards that
>SSO for e-resources is the most persuasive merit of Shibboleth for librarians.
>However, we feel some difficulties to promote our federation only with this
>insistence.
>   As same as in UK, there are many universities in Japan which
>use EZProxy as a tool of  SSO for their libraries' e-resources.
>Considering Shibboleth as a tool for SSO, some of them claim that
>it is difficult to find any significant advantage over their
>EZProxy-based SSO systems.
>
>   Then, how do you think the merit / demerit of...
>
>1) Shibboleth-only SSO service,
>2) Non-Shibbolized EZProxy-based SSO,
>3) Hybrid SSO with Shibboleth and Shibbolized EZProxy ?
>
>Please show us your opinions.
>
>   Best wishes;
>
>   Hideaki
>
>
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>NODA, Hideaki
>
>Chiba University Library
>     Public service division.
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