WAM is our choice but there are resources we subscribe to which require Athens
authentication (in the UK at least - your mileage may vary) and these resources
will require Shibboleth in future. Most are already Shibboleth compliant. We
probably subscribe to fewer than a dozen such resources. Also WAM cannot send
unique user IDs and for those resources which require them we are currently
using Athens.
Mieko
Quoting David Kane <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hi Mieko,
>
> Why do you choose Shibboleth over III's WAM? I thought the two were
> equivalent.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Kane
> Systems Librarian
> Waterford Institute of Technology
> http://library.wit.ie/
> T: ++353.51302838
> M: ++353.876693212
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