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. -- David J. Fiander Digital Services Librarian