Shibboleth Developers

At 11:58 AM -0500 11/16/05, Tom Scavo wrote:
> Hmm, if you google "shibboleth authn osid", you get all kinds of
> interesting hits, including this at the top:
>
> http://stc.cis.brown.edu/~stc/Projects/LionShare/Docs/LS-OKI.html

the LionShare project at psu is funded by the Mellon Foundation, 
which also funded development of the OKI standards. Mellon was very 
interested in having LS explore the use of the OSIDs (this shouldn't 
be a surprise to anyone...).

However, the LS project concluded early on that some of the OSIDs 
weren't really useable in a client-server environment. They were 
designed for a single container environment (eg an LMS running within 
a servlet container); they were not designed for use by both a client 
and a server in a distributed environment. An OSID in that container 
could certainly communicate with a remote environment. But that's 
different from a client using an Authn OSID to somehow 
"authenticate" to a remote service, and have the Authn OSID use an 
existing TCP connection to that service, and have the Authn OSID help 
to appropriately insert authn credentials within some other protocol 
stream (think authenticating to a remote SQL server, or using SASL, 
etc).

It remains a dream.....

Will-- can you provide a bit more detail about your specific situation?