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>>> On 02/03/2007 at 11:02, in message, Mark Tysom <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks for pointing that out Mark, it's an important consideration. I'll > pass that on to the web team. > > We're working on an FAQ/What would my institution have to set up to be > able to join? sort of document and I'll send round a link to it once we > have it. > Hi, Now that is music to my ears! At Dundee we're at the early stages of looking at a Shibboleth deployment (I joined this list a couple of days ago) and I've been doing a trawl of the matu, ukfederation and early adopter websites getting very frustrated that I can't really find any concrete direction on what we need to do. There is some good documentation to be found and I am accumulating quite a pile of it, (thanks for the pointers, Nicole) but something rather more pithy would be nice: Basically I'm looking for something which will tell us: What deploying shibboleth will actually achieve for us and our users What software we need to deploy What hardware we need to spec to deploy it on What configuration effort will be required to set it all up What ongoing maintenance and ongoing administration effort will be needed. What _other software_ we should look at deploying as well? SSO? What other questions I should have asked and will regret not having asked later :-) I was wondering what resources will be available from the early adopter sites to those coming along afterwards, for instance I was very interested to see references to the Bristol integration of Aleph, Metalib and SFX, all of which we use (or are about to use) here. There's reference to "documentation which ... details a step-by-step approach to the integration" which I would love to get my hands on but can't find. If the early adopters are on this discussion list I would very much like to correspond. Mark, I look forward to your faq asap and would be happy to take a pre-release copy of the document (what better proof reader can you get than someone who really does know nothing :-) Cheers Andy Swiffin Dundee University