Syllabus News, Resources (Re. Shibboleth)

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

With Permission from Syllabus. See esp. note on Shibboleth.
Chuck

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News for December 27, 2002

* Stanford Facility to Examine Nano-Tech Structures
* WebCT Supports Shibboleth Standard for Higher-Ed
* AOL, Virginia Schools, Discuss Common Interests
* Corinthian Colleges to Acquire Learning Tree Assets
* GMU Health Center Unveils Self Check-In Module

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WebCT to Support Shibboleth for Higher-Ed

Course management system developer WebCT Inc. said it would support the
"Shibboleth" access and authorization technology across its entire product
line. Shibboleth -- an Internet2/MACE (Middleware Architecture Committee
for Education) initiative -- is an emerging open source standard to enable
seamless sharing of multiple Web resources that are subject to access
controls such as user IDs and passwords. Shibboleth uses "Clubs" to
specify a set of parties who have agreed to a common set of policies. This
allows different systems, such as course management systems and library
databases,to access one another securely without requiring manual
integration or users to log in separately for every system they wish to
access. WebCT proved its software's ability to accept and transmit
Shibboleth data in a demonstration with Ohio State University last fall.

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