User Authentication Strategies in Multi-Institutional Environments > Future Developments > "Authenticate Locally, Authorize Globally" -- Project Shibboleth

Why Do It?

Benefits to Institutions

• Provide information services to users without cumbersome IP address restrictions and proxy servers.
• Enhance user privacy by protecting the identity while allowing authorization via non-personally identifying attributes.
• Single infrastructure for inter-institutional collaborative relationships.

Benefits to Information Providers

• Finer granularity of access control.
• Greatly simplified management of use rules and user bases.
• No need to maintain databases of authorized users.