Proxy Web Servers and Authentication > Future Developments > Project Shibboleth

Project Goals

• "...a standards based vendor independent web access control infrastructure that can operate across institutional boundaries."
• "This project seeks to define [...] standards for the secure exchange of trusted interoperable information which could be used in authorization decisions."
• "The goal is is to develop and promulgate an architecture, which can then be used in a multi-vendor, open source, standards based environment."