Hi Andy,
I haven't seen the full announcement (and can't find it on the eduserv
site) so if you're not overwhelmed with requests, I would be grateful if
you could send me a copy.
I'm afraid I took the liberty of posting your message on the newly
established jisc-shibboleth-libraries list. I was just about to post to
that list about the shibb2athens gateway when your email arrived (so I
used it as a hook for my somewhat revised question).
Thanks, Mike
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Dr Michael Fraser
Head of Infrastructure Systems and Services
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6NN
Tel: 01865 283 343
Fax: 01865 273 275
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/
Andy Swiffin wrote:
> >>> On 22/01/2008 at 11:29, in message
> <[log in to unmask]>, "Antonia
> Keith-Welsh" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Dear Colleague
>>
>> BENEFITS OF MORE OPENATHENS SUBSCRIPTIONS TO BE SHARED THROUGH LOWER PRICES
>>
>> It has become clear during the past month that, contrary to previous
>> expectations, the JISC will not be contracting with Eduserv for provision of
>> Shibboleth/Athens gateways for all universities and colleges from August
>> 2008. (These gateways enable members of a university or college in the UK
>> Access Management Federation to access Athens-protected resources to which the
>> institution subscribes: FAQs at
>> http://www.athensams.net/federations/openathens/faq provide further details.)
>> The non-negotiable offer we received from the JISC did not approach the
>> projected full economic cost of the service in 2008/2009 or provide a
>> sustainable basis for the future.
>> ....
>> .... (large chunk)
>>
>> We are disappointed that we have been unable to reach agreement with the
>> JISC on central funding for a Gateways service. We are committed to providing
>> real sustainable benefit and shared value to the HE and FE communities. We
>> believe that the measures outlined above are now the best way we can do this.
>>
>> Keith Dixon
>> Access & Identity Management
>> Eduserv
>> advancing achievment
>
>
> This just arrived from Eduserv, anyone from JISC/Janet care to comment?
>
> If anyone didn't get this email let me know and I'll post the full text here.
>
> Andy Swiffin
> Dundee
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