Internet2's initiative

• To support sharing – between domains – of secured web resources and services

• Delivering:

• • an architecture and policy framework
  • a set of SAML profiles
  • an open source implementation (http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/)

• There is at least one other open source implementation: Guanxi http://www.guanxi.uhi.ac.uk/index.php/Guanxi:About