Middleware Announcements

[Renee Frost <>]

Shibbing News (Feb. 2004): Periodic news and announcements about the 
Internet2/MACE Shibboleth Project.
For more information, please visit the main Shibboleth page at 
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/

1. Shibboleth 1.1 Successfully Used By Penn State Students Registering for 
Napster 2.0 Premium Service. Internet2 News Release:
http://archives.internet2.edu/guest/archives/I2-NEWS/log200401/msg00005.html

2. Upcoming Shibboleth release - Shibboleth v1.2 is expected to be released 
in March, and it will be backwards compatible with v1.1. Major changes are 
support of Apache 2.x and IIS 6 as target platforms, and the introduction 
of multi-federation support.

3. The InQueue Federation continues to grow, and now has approximately 40 
campus members and counting.  Vendors participating include Blackboard, 
EBSCO, JSTOR, OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), SFX / Ex Libris, 
WebAssign, and WebCT.

See the InQueue website for more information: http://inqueue.internet2.edu/

4. The UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Call for Projects in 
Core Middleware has named Shibboleth as one of its areas of emphasis. This 
reflects the impact Shibboleth is having on current and future IT 
architectures across the R&E community, internationally as well as in the 
US. Further examples of this include broad Shibboleth implementations among 
the R&E sectors in Switzerland, Canada, Finland, and Australia, among others.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=c01_04

5. Current Shibboleth Demo Instructions are online at
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/docs/demo-instructions.html

6. Archived Webcast from the most recent Internet2 Member Meeting (October 
2003) is available at http://winmedia.internet2.edu/FMM-VOD/session6.wmv

David Wasley described the Univ. of California's testing of a 
Shibboleth-enabled SFX server (from Ex-Libris), Barry Ribbeck described 
UTH-HSC's use of a Shibboleth-enabled Blackboard Course Management System, 
and John Paschoud described Shibboleth use at the London School of Economics.

(Windows Media Format, player available at 
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp)