At 12:13 PM +0000 2/20/08, Nigel Bruce wrote:
>Ian
>
>We decided about 12 months ago to move away from using AthensIM but
>we've been waiting for Version 2 of Shibboleth to appear. This seems to
>have been imminent for some time :-) Our thinking was that we didn't
>want to to do two moves (AthensIM ---> Internet2 1.2/1.3 implementation
>--> Internet2 version 2.0) when we could get away with one. Do you
>think we should stop waiting for 2.0 and move to 1.3? Do you have any
>inside information? If we have to abandon AthensIM now, we will?
>
status update for Shibboleth v2 --
RC1 releases of the IdP, SP, and Discovery Service were made
available several weeks ago. An RC2 release of the IdP was made
available yesterday.
If no serious issues arise, we expect to make the final release
available two weeks from yesterday -- on March 4th.
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