Shibboleth Developers

[Tom Scavo <>]

Here's some background material re OpenSSO:

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Sun to Open-Source Single Sign-On Code
Joris Evers, CNET News.com

Sun Microsystems plans to release part of the blueprints of its Java
Access Manager single sign-on product to the open-source community, it
said Wednesday. The company will release the source code to its Web
authentication and Web single sign-on technology as part of a new
project called Open Web Single Sign-On (Open SSO), Sun representatives
said. The release also will include software hooks to the Sun Java
System Web Server and Sun Java System Application Server, they said.
Web single sign-on makes it easier for users to log into multiple Web
applications with one set of credentials and simplifies password
management for organizations. The code Sun is releasing is meant to
enable single sign-on only inside a single organization; it does not
support federation across organizations. Sun's source code release
gives Java developers at enterprises or software makers the ability
to support single sign-on technology in their applications. The first
source code as part of the OpenSSO project is due out in the fourth
quarter, with full release slated for the spring of next year; the
code is being released under Sun's Common Development and Distribution
License, the same one it is using for the open-source release of the
Solaris operating system.

http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5787259.html
See also Open Web SSO Project: https://opensso.dev.java.net/

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Digital Identity News
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   Sun to Open Source Web Single Sign-on
   http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/print.php/3519651

   Sun bolsters federated ID lineup
   http://news.com.com/2102-7355_3-5756154.html?tag=st.util.print

   Sun Looks Beyond The SOA Here And Now
   http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/print.php/3516501

Sara Gates, Sun's VP of Identity Management, has long hinted that Sun
is planning to commoditize several of the basic components of identity
management and focus on developing those that add value to that base.
With this announcement that they are making basic web SSO open source,
we may be starting to see how that strategy will manifest.

According to Sun's press release "Initial source code will be
available beginning in Q4 of 2005 with full release of OpenSSO in
spring 2006 under the under the OSI (Open Source Initiative) approved
Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), the same license
Sun is using for its OpenSolaris (TM) project." The OpenSSO project
web site will be http://opensso.dev.java.net.

"This is the kind of move that the identity market needs to progress,"
said Mike Neuenschwander, associate research director at Burton Group.
"We have to get beyond talking about retrofitting existing infrastructure
and  begin making identity inherent in everything we do."

Talking to folks at Catalyst, some are wondering who Sun is targeting
with this move, given that it is unlikely companies that have started
down some other web SSO road will switch. I'd say that misses the point
that current deployments are an extremely small percentage of what's
coming. But Digital ID World exists to give you context and perspective
on the identity marketplace, so read the other two articles above and
see if you can figure out how they fit together.

Identity *will* eventually become ubiquitous, and while web SSO is a
foundational technology, it will ultimately be seen to be a small part
of the ultimate identity market. Sun is trying to accellerate that trend
so they can capitalize on the larger marketplace.

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On 7/22/05, Walter Hoehn 
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> https://opensso.dev.java.net/
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> -Walter
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