If you’ve been keeping a close eye on the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research website, you may have noticed that we now have 96 members. This means that if your organisation joins in the next few days then you could be the federation’s 100^th member!

 

Although you may not be ready to implement Shibboleth at the moment, there is nothing to stop you from joining the federation now to enable you to benefit from membership as soon as you are ready.

 

In her JISC Access Management Team Blog (http://involve.jisc.ac.uk/wpmu/jam/2007/08/13/mcshibbolising/), Nicole Harris summarises this nicely, using a quote from a recent RSC event in Edinburgh:

 

“One of the key messages from the day was the importance of kicking off the legal part of joining the Federation. To quote Andy Swiffin:

 

‘There is no cost involved in doing this and even if you subsequently decide to outsource your identity provision your institution will still need to join. The great benefit in doing this as soon as possible is that when you do want to actively participate all of the paperwork is in place. In addition, if as many institutions as possible join now it sends a very clear message to Service Providers that this is something that the UK academic community is serious about and that its worth their while to put some effort in making their application Shibboleth aware. This in turn benefits us all!’”

 

Regards

 

John

 

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Dr John Chapman
Project Adviser: Technical Policy and Standards
Becta
Millburn Hill Road
Science Park
Coventry
CV4 7JJ

Direct line: 024 7679 7453

 

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Nicole Harris
Senior Services Transition Manager
JISC Executive
Brettenham House (South Entrance)
5, Lancaster Place
London WC2E 7EN

Tel: 02030066035
Mob: 07734058308