[Sigdl-l] Fwd: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Shibboleth Version 1 Released

[Richard Hill]

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>Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:36:54 -0700
>From: Clifford Lynch <cliff at cni.org>
>Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE]  Shibboleth Version 1 Released
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>I wanted to share with CNI-announce readers the recent press release from 
>Internet 2 on progress with the Shibboleth distributed authentication 
>system. This is a very important infrastructure component which is now 
>developing real implementation momentum.
>
>Clifford Lynch
>Director, CNI
>
>
>INTERNET2 RELEASES PRIVACY-PRESERVING WEB AUTHORIZATION SOFTWARE
>
>Open source Shibboleth software developed and tested by more than 20 
>leading companies and universities
>
>ANN ARBOR, MI -- Internet2 today announced the availability of Shibboleth 
>1.0, the first production version of software implementing a leading 
>online authorization architecture.  Shibboleth, which is standards-based 
>and open source, incorporates active privacy management while enabling 
>inter-institutional sharing of Web resources subject to access controls.
>
>Blackboard, WebCT and WebAssign, course management software providers, and 
>EBSCO, JSTOR and SFX, online information companies, have already begun to 
>incorporate Shibboleth technology into their products and 
>services.  Shibboleth has been widely tested with over 20 leading 
>universities and research institutions participating in pilot 
>deployments.  SWITCH, the Swiss national research and education networking 
>organization has selected Shibboleth as their official authentication and 
>authorization architecture and the National Science Digital Library 
>(NSDL), a major educational initiative by the National Science Foundation, 
>will use Shibboleth to allow access to customized or restricted content 
>and services.
>
>"Shibboleth has made cross-institutional course management, content 
>management, portfolio management systems and other home grown 
>applications, all accessible through integrated and seamless online 
>teaching and learning environments across the enterprise,"said Christopher 
>Etesse, Senior Director of Technology at Blackboard.  "By combining 
>Shibboleth with the open architecture of the Blackboard Learning System, 
>the academic community has gained a tremendous solution for the next 
>generation of online education."
>
>"The availability of Shibboleth 1.0 is a major milestone in a long 
>road.  The Coalition for Networked Information led much of the work 
>articulating the requirements for a system like Shibboleth some five years 
>ago; designing and building it has been a major effort that required the 
>best talent from the higher education community," said Dr. Clifford Lynch, 
>Executive Director for the Coalition for Networked Information.  "We 
>continue to work with Internet2 and the broader community to validate and 
>widely deploy this essential and badly-needed infrastructure for 
>inter-organizational networked information applications.  One of the first 
>applications will be managing access to content licensed by research 
>libraries on behalf of their campus communities.  User privacy is a core 
>value of these libraries, and the adoption of Shibboleth in this area 
>emphasizes the extent to which Shibboleth's design fundamentally 
>recognizes and honors user privacy."
>
>"We are excited by the increasing momentum and dedication of the 
>developers, as demonstrated by the release of Shibboleth 1.0," said David 
>Millman, Director of Research and Development at Academic Information 
>Systems, Columbia University and member of the National Science Digital 
>Library (NDSL) Core Integration Team.  "NSDL has long been committed to 
>the Shibboleth technology because of its scalable, distributed 
>architecture and its privacy protections, both critical goals of the NSDL 
>itself."
>
>"JSTOR has been looking for a replacement to the current IP authentication 
>model in the academic community," said David Yakimischak, Chief Technology 
>Officer for JSTOR, an online resource of scholarly journals.  "We see 
>Shibboleth as the best current alternative, for it provides simplicity, 
>scalability, extensibility, and the protection of privacy within an open, 
>standard architecture. Our early prototypes with Shibboleth have been 
>successful, and we anticipate ever increasing interest and demand from our 
>participating academic institutions."
>
>Shibboleth emphasizes federated administration and access control based on 
>attributes rather than identity to provide a scalable and extensible 
>framework for inter-institutional authorization.  The Shibboleth software 
>was developed under the auspices of the National Science Foundation's 
>Middleware Initiative (NMI).
>
>Institutions currently involved in the pilot program include: Carnegie 
>Mellon University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Georgetown 
>University, London School of Economics, New York University, Ohio State 
>University, Pennsylvania State, University of Colorado, University of 
>Michigan, University of Texas Health Center at Houston, University of 
>Washington, University of Wisconsin -- Madison, University of California 
>Office of the President, Blackboard Inc., EBSCO, JSTOR, OCLC, SFX, 
>WebAssign and WebCT.
>
>Shibboleth is an Internet2 project designed to develop architectures, 
>policy structures, practical technologies and open source 
>implementations.  Shibboleth 1.0 has been tested with the Apache Web 
>server on Red Hat Linux versions 7.2 and 7.3, and on Solaris 2.8, with 
>Microsoft Windows2000 versions for both Apache and IIS expected to be 
>available soon.  For more information about the Internet2 Middleware 
>Initiative and Shibboleth, visit: 
><http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/>http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/
>
>About Blackboard Inc.
>Blackboard Inc. was founded with a vision to transform the Internet into a 
>powerful environment for the education experience.  Blackboard is a 
>leading provider of e-Education solutions serving the global needs of 
>primary and secondary schools, higher education, corporations and 
>government agencies.  Blackboard is headquartered in Washington, D.C., 
>with offices and staff across North America, Europe and Asia.  Visit 
><http://www.blackboard.com/>www.blackboard.com for more information.
>
>About Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
>CNI is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise 
>of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly 
>communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  Some 200 
>institutions representing higher education, publishing, network and 
>telecommunications, information technology, and libraries and library 
>organizations make up CNI's Members.  CNI is jointly sponsored by EDUCAUSE 
>and the Association of Research Libraries.  For more information, visit 
><http://www.cni.org/>www.cni.org.
>
>About National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
>NSDL is a digital library of exemplary resource collections and services, 
>organized in support of science education at all levels. Starting with a 
>partnership of NSDL-funded projects, NSDL is emerging as a center of 
>innovation in digital libraries as applied to education, and a community 
>center for groups focused on digital-library-enabled science 
>education.  For more information, visit: www.nsdl.org.
>
>About Internet2(R)
>Led by over 200 U.S. universities, working with industry and government, 
>Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications and 
>technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation 
>of tomorrow's Internet.  Internet2 recreates the partnerships among 
>academia, industry and government that helped foster today's Internet in 
>its infancy.  For more information, visit: 
><http://www.internet2.edu/>www.internet2.edu.
>
>
># # #
>
>CONTACT:
>Michelle Pollak
>Internet2
>(202) 331-5345
>mpollak at internet2.edu
>
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