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Some additional information about two of the sessions at next week's 
Internet2 Member Meeting:

# Shibboleth related sessions at Internet2 Fall Member Meeting
The Internet2 Fall Member Meeting is in Austin, TX this year 
September 27-30. Below are some of the sessions related to 
Shibboleth. The entire program is online at 
http://events.internet2.edu/2004/fall-mm/agenda.cfm?event=219

Monday Sept 27
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM -- Shibboleth and Federations Working Group
This is the working group session for Shibboleth and Federations.

The WG session will  be devoted to providing updated information 
about a wide variety of Shibboleth-related efforts, including a 
discussion of the new functionality expected in the next release 
(v1.3), the native java target implementation (now in alpha testing), 
events in the Federation world (including the recent launch of the 
InCommon Federation), the JISC funded efforts in the UK, the Federal 
E-Authn certification effort, the effort with Microsoft, the 
evolution of the Shib project, and a preview of SAML 2.0 and the 
functionality it will provide.

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM -- Shibboleth for Non-Web-Based Applications
The newest version of Shibboleth, the open, standards-based solution 
for controlling access to resources in a secure and 
privacy-preserving manner, has evolved to address applications in the 
non-web environments and three-tier-related world, such as those 
experienced with grids, P2P applications and portals. Developers that 
are enhancing their applications with Shib will discuss their 
approaches and the benefits of these new capabilities.

Tom Barton will describe the NSF-funded effort to implement an 
integration of the Grid Security protocols and the the Shibboleth 
protocols and functionality. Derek Morr will describe how the 
LionShare P2P  application is 1) using Shibboleth to add access 
control to P2P file sharing technology, and 2) adding Shibboleth 
support to ECL, an implementation of the IMS DRI protocol. Mikael 
Linden will describe Helsinki University's use of Shibboleth to 
authenticate users of their  wireless network.