Shibboleth Developers

[Nate Klingenstein <>]

Middleware folks everywhere,

The "Steven Carmody of Brown University and IEEE" problem is how the  
Shibboleth project has traditionally framed the challenge of  
assembling information about a single principal from multiple  
identity sources.  We have made general assumptions about the nature  
of aggregation that the community would like to be able to perform,  
but there has been no real dialogue to really collect use cases and  
requirements.

JISC in the UK has funded a project that intends to develop open  
source software to prototype a method of performing attribute  
aggregation.  Shibboleth and SAML are strong candidates for  
underlying technologies to build upon, but there are many other  
relevant standards and technologies.  Donating your requirements and  
potentially a few mental cycles would help focus the project on  
addressing your needs.

Please find attached a (fairly) brief questionnaire that asks many of  
the questions anticipated to be important.  If you have a chance to  
fill it out, you can return it obligation-free to either myself at  
 or David Chadwick at ,  
preferably by April 23.

Many thanks,
Nate.

Attachment: Questionnaire.doc
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