JISC has announced that provision of Shibboleth/Athens gateways for all universities and colleges will no longer form part of the JISC Services portfolio from 1st August 2008.
Eduserv had asked JISC for a non-negotiable price for the provision of the Gateway Services significantly above what the JISC Board believed could be justified as a balanced or fair expenditure within the JISC services budget and as a value for money option for the education community as a whole. The funding of the Federation Gateway Services has been part of a long history of collaboration between JISC and Eduserv, which has seen JISC fund the provision of and enhancements to Athens as well as the full costs of developing the Gateway Services. The cessation of funding for the Federation Gateway Services means that JISC can no longer guarantee the compliance of Athens products within the UK Access Management Federation.
JISC must now ask all institutions to review their access management strategy in the light of these developments.
Further information is at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2008/01/gateways.aspx
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