Shibboleth Developers

["RL 'Bob' Morgan" <>]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, John-Paul Robinson wrote:

> I've been thinking along these lines and also adding something like a 
> "sponsored" catagory where poeple with a useful id from and IdP in 
> InCommon or the like, could vouch for an identity on this service. 
> This would be a moderated identity in a sense.  I'm not sure if it makes 
> sense to add this feature at the IdP, since the moderation could be done 
> at the SP (eg. no. you're not on the list of those allowed in.), but it 
> seems like an interesting category in the spirit of the PKI-buddy 
> systems (simlar to cacert.org http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/5142)

That would be very useful, seems to me.  Sponsored accounts is a very 
common concept.  I think we'd like to encourage SPs to look to IdPs in 
general for that first level of vetting.  And indeed, being fresh back 
from Digital ID World where new-age identity schemes (aka "Identity 2.0") 
were the hot topic, I think there's some stuff for us university infra 
types to explore there, eg taking sponsorship towards "web of trust".

 - RL "Bob"