Ross!  You're not supposed to actually _say_ it!

- David

On 22-Mar-07, at 23:37 , Ross Singer wrote:

> On 3/22/07, Don McMorris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Ryan's message (I guess seeing "academia") made me think of Athens,
>> which made me further think "Hey, Subscription Databases are just
>> ITCHING for OpenID!".  I mean, come on... The methods we have for
>> database authentication aren't working well...
>
>
> Well, naturally, academia has thought of this and overengineered it to
> death:
>
> http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/
>
> which is why it's taken 7years so far and there is still very few
> implementations.
>
> -Ross.

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David J. Fiander
Digital Services Librarian