>Isn't this madness?
I agree that an HEI IdP is equally likely to be run by the people who
run central institutional directory services. As it happens our Library
IT and other IT infrastructure departments work fairly well together -
and stay fairly sane as a result ;->
Of course our IdP server uses an LDAP server run (not by the Library)
for wider purposes as its' backend. And all of the current (external)
target SPs we have in mind are "library" resources (the Library manages
the licences for them). We're also developing Shib SP access management
for various internal services.
But we may not keep the IdP under Library management forever. Similarly
we may well expand the scope of the LDAP (which doesn't include many
non-LSE users of our library services) that it uses. In any case there
are other supporting services that will be needed (and which we're
currently scoping or testing) for ARP-management, priviledge-management,
group-management, etc; and these will all need to have administration
devolved across several service departments - even in a small and
simple place like LSE.
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion list for Shibboleth developments
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon Warbrick
> Sent: 20 April 2006 15:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [JISC-SHIBBOLETH] "Implementing Shibboleth: A
> Publisher's Persepective"; the JISC/UK-update bit
>
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, John Paschoud wrote:
>
> > ... aimed primarily at IT support people for institutional
> libraries
> > (who are likely to end up running institutional IdP services),
>
> Is this a widespread expectation within .ac.uk? I was rather
> expecting that central Academic Computing or MIS groups would
> end up providing a general Shib service for an institution,
> of which e-journal (etc.) access coordinated by libraries
> would be an initial user, perhaps followed by e-science and
> other applications.
>
> The alternative would seem to be for libraries to run an
> e-journal targeted Shib service, science faculties to run an
> e-science targeted Shib service, etc, etc. Isn't this madness?
>
> Jon.
>
> --
> Jon Warbrick
> Web/News Development, Computing Service, University of Cambridge
>
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