Norman,
I see. I thought it may have been a bit of Hindu mythology you
picked up during the meeting!
David
> >> - single signon -- limited IVOA attention. `Shibboleth' appears
> >> to be gaining juggernaut status
> >
> > Would you care to unpack this statement???
>
> Ah, right. A little opaque, there.
>
> `Single signon' is the idea that one will be able to use and access
> multiple grid resources -- compute servers, databases or MySpace
> servers, for example -- which are distinct geographically and
> organisationally, without having to provide dozens of different
> username/password pairs. Instead you will have a `single signon', and
> it is this single identity which will gain you access to these
> resources.
>
> The particle physicists have something here, but the IVOA hasn't really
> thought about it at all. This is a complicated problem, not least
> because any solution would probably have to interoperate with a variety
> of local solutions, for example, campus-wide authentication systems
> unconnected with any grid. There are multiple potential systems, one
> of which, Shibboleth, appears to be the one that will prevail, on the
> grounds that it is the one that everyone _thinks_ will prevail.
>
> Norman
>
>
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