JISC

Start date: 1 June 2004

End date: 31 May 2006

Funding programme: Core Middleware: Technology Development programme

Project website: http://sec.isi.salford.ac.uk/Projects.htm#SIPS

JISC theme(s): Access management, e-Research

SIPS: Seamlessly Integrating PERMIS and Shibboleth   

This project will seamlessly integrate PERMIS and Shibboleth using 4 different methods. Each method has advantages and disadvantages from security, performance, management and privacy perspectives. This project will test 3 of the integration methods in an application at Salford, and will support all other JISC Core Middleware funded projects that also wish to pilot integrated PERMIS/Shibboleth (4 such projects have been identified, and between them all 4 methods will be evaluated). Support for the other JISC Core Middleware projects has been built into this proposal. An Evaluative Questionnaire will be produced near the end of this project and circulated to the pilot sites, and an Evaluation Report produced. The enhanced Shibboleth supporting PERMIS infrastructure will be distributed as part of the US NMI release.