RA21 - Resource Access for the 21st Century

[Manuel Haim]

Hi list,

recently, I was informed by our library team about the project "RA21 -
Resource Access for the 21st Century" (https://ra21.org), which was
formed by an association of well-known publishers (e.g. Elsevier,
SpringerNature, Wiley) in order to get rid of IP-based authentication.

On the one hand, it seems that they just "[seek] to get wider adoption
of Shibboleth for /all/ users", see
https://discuss.folio.org/t/ra21-projects-impact-on-user-management/454

On the other hand, there may be a problem with privacy, as the login
process is centralized by providing their own cloud-wide (custom?) WAYF
service: "why don't publishers ask each other instead of all asking the
user", see page 35ff. of
https://ra21.org/index.php/ra21-events/ra21workshop-april2017-final-2/

Does anybody have an idea in which direction RA21 goes?

Kind regards,
Manuel Haim