Presence and IntComm WG

[Jorj Bauer <>]

> Hi All

Hi Rodney, hope all is well!

> Jorj Bauer wrote:
> > > * [Tom] SAML/XMPP discussion
> >
> > To summarize the email exchange between Tom and Peter (which was a
> > great start), Tom thinks it would be fairly easy to re-implement what
> > is essentially the system we discussed with Rodney a few years back.
> > Shibbolizing a web client would be fairly easy, and has some benefit
> > in a specific set of use cases. We could pursue this, as well as
> > continuing on the road of SAML attribute passing via XMPP in a more
> > generic way (which could be used from native clients). More  
> > discussion
> > on the topic is welcome, and I expect that Tom and Peter's email
> > conversation will continue when Peter is available again.
>
> One quick, dirty, simple-ish  and quick win for a "shibbolized" XMPP
> client  was to use Jeti <http://jeti.sourceforge.net> and  java
> webstart. It goes something like this
>
> 1) create a SP which  once  a user is authenticated  creates a one- 
> time
> password and inserts it into the xmpp server database for that user  
> and
> downloads to the user a modified JNLP file with the one time password
> and JID in it to the user.
> 2) modify the jeti application to get the one time password and JID  
> from
> the JNLP file and start up jeti pre-configured for the user with JID,
> password (and other preferences?)

Thanks, we'll be discussing this as an approach now that we're  
starting down this path. Assuming that I can get a development VM from  
Internet2, I hope that we'll be able to use it as a testbed for this  
work. Java is not my field of expertise, but I suspect we'll be able  
to do something as a group...

-- Jorj

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