i can see many library administrators being skeptical about openid...
at my library we're actively looking at shibboleth. i don't know enough
about either one yet to speak intelligently about them,
but..doesn't shibboleth operate similarly to openid?
cheers,
susan
Susan Teague Rector
Library Information Systems
Web Applications Manager
VCU Libraries
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Jeremy Frumkin wrote:
While OpenID has potential within certain contexts, I have difficulty seeing
it being quickly adopted by libraries, universities, or other entities that
need to relate real identities to an OpenID. OpenID doesn¹t do trust; it
explicitly says it is not a trust system. For libraries to adopt OpenID,
they need to somehow link OpenID to a trust system. It isn¹t clear to me
that there is enough added value to libraries at this point to adopt OpenID
of course, I¹d be glad to buy someone a beer if they provide a use case to
convince me otherwise ;-)
-- jaf
On 3/22/07 8:37 PM, "Ross Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/22/07, Don McMorris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ryan's message (I guess seeing "academia") made me think of Athens,
which made me further think "Hey, Subscription Databases are just
ITCHING for OpenID!". I mean, come on... The methods we have for
database authentication aren't working well...
Well, naturally, academia has thought of this and overengineered it to
death:
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/
which is why it's taken 7years so far and there is still very few
implementations.
-Ross.
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