US Federations Discussion

["Laskaris, George" <>]

Our next call is scheduled for Wednesday April 21st at 4pm Eastern.

This month's call will feature Andy Dale from the content provider OCLC, best 
known for its Library Databases who is currently interested in delivering an 
outsourced IdP for K-12 and other groups and would like to discuss 
requirements with the USFeds group.  He will describe what OCLC is developing 
and is hoping this forum will help him better understand the market and 
provide some validation of their business case.

The following is a description of Andy's presentation:

We are building and deploying hosted library services (SaaS). As part of that 
effort we are building a robust SAML 2.0 based set of services so that our 
customer's patrons can move seamlessly between infrastructure hosted by us 
and systems self hosted or hosted by others. Having built and deployed robust 
federated IDM infrastructure within an organization that is large, trusted 
(non-profit co-op) and has a mature operational infrastructure (already 
running many 24/7 services across our redundant data centers). Does it make 
sense to only provide the IDM services as part of a hosted library solution 
or is there need out there for the IDM services as a standalone offering?

I hope you can join us and help to provide some insights for Andy on April 
21st

The call in number is 1-877-944-2300, access code 99205#.

Regards,
-George Laskaris & Rich Greenfield