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["Dale,Andy" <>]

Dear Hideaki,

The main issues driving my desire to see wider adoption of Shibboleth
(or some other form of federated identity) in place of EZProxy are the
demands put on the system by rich media. 

By rich media I mean everything from content providers who want to use
flash, AJAX or other complex client processing to provide rich discovery
services. To the delivery of audio books and movies directly to the
patron. In the first case most proxies (not just EZProxy) have limited
support for these rich user interfaces; we are close to the limit of our
ability to rewrite content as it passes through the proxy. In the second
case passing large media files, like movies, through proxies is
inefficient and rapidly becoming untenable. 

All the best,

Andy Dale



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Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:45 PM
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Subject: [inc-librsvcs] Fwd: EZProxy v. Shibboleth?

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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
>
>
>------------------------
>NODA, Hideaki
>
>Chiba University Library
>     Public service division.
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