well I don't agree but I'm not surprised: "Becta's research has shown that Shibboleth is the most suitable solution for securely accessing online content for the education sector and should be adopted as an integral component in the strategic approach to the future development of ICT in education, skills and children's services." The benefits of Shibboleth are pretty easy to recognize: it's an open source single sign-on solution that improves personalization and reduces costs and security issues. Add to that the need for 'trust' between users, providers and infrastructure managers, and you've pretty much already selected Shibboleth. My issue with Shibboleth is that I want my ID to carry over to and from sites that schools and publishers don't 'trust' - outside the federation, in other words. PDF or MS-Word.
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