Shibboleth Developers

[Peter Williams <>]

What is the "impending problem" - that didn't exist 3 years ago with 
sufficient imperative?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Cantor 
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> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 1:48 PM
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> Subject: RE: [Shib-Dev] FW: [security-services] Public Review of SAML
> 2.0 Profiles
>
> Peter Williams wrote on 2009-03-30:
> > Can you specifically disclose the Shibboleth communities rationales
> and
> > motivating use cases?
>
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/ShibuPortal/Home
>
> > Presumably, there was a review at some point, with associated
> disclosure,
> > discussion ppts, comments, contributions, etc.
>
> I needed a solution to an impending problem, warned a few people left
> in
> Liberty where the work overlapped with prior art, and then I wrote it
> up.
>
> I am in a unique position to do so with respect to composition with the
> original standard because I know what the original standard was
> designed to
> do once the necessary extensions and profiling were done. The
> delegation
> work, apart from the portion already done in Liberty, is just the
> material I
> couldn't spend time on three years ago when I was writing the original
> spec.
>
> -- Scott
>