RE: OpenAthens doppelgänger ?

[IAM David Bantz]

 Good perspective (make friends) Keith.

Aren’t scoped assertions from the OpenAthens IdP going to be “@alaska.edu”?
They are not, though; they are paying customers of the for profit
organization.

What sort of thing would be apprpriate to "teach to" the Library liaison to
OpenAthens?

David

On 03Dec2021 at 13:30:33, "Wessel, Keith" <kwessel at illinois.edu> wrote:

> Depends on how many of your users are using discovery interfaces that list
> both as well as what the display name is for the OpenAthens entity. At the
> least, this sounds like an opportunity to make a friend at whichever of
> your campuses’ libraries is the contact for your OpenAthens configuration.
> It’s definitely a teachable moment.
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> Keith
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> *From:* users <users-bounces at shibboleth.net> *On Behalf Of *IAM David
> Bantz
> *Sent:* Friday, December 3, 2021 4:27 PM
> *To:* Shib Users <users at shibboleth.net>
> *Subject:* OpenAthens doppelgänger ?
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> I haven’t been paying enough attention to OpenAthens. I just realized
> there is an OpenAthens federated identity provider from a for-profit
> organization with an entity ID and scope referring to my institution. That
> seems to mean that consumers of information from the OpenAthens IdP may
> conclude, informally from the entity ID, and more correctly based on the
> scope, that the assertion is about a member of my institution. As I say, I
> haven’t paid enough attention to OpenAthens, so maybe I need some
> ’splaining, but this seems to me wrong on many levels. Is it? How concerned
> should I be?
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> <md:EntityDescriptor … entityID="https://idp.alaska.edu/openathens
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/idp.alaska.edu/openathens__;!!DZ3fjg!ss-gBE2VLSfEpyRTMYK5VOFdx_pSW4e5k8U7hArZhtkos3tYM5uHlFUeBd-KTek2sw$>
> ”>
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> …<shibmd:Scope regexp=“false">alaska.edu
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/alaska.edu__;!!DZ3fjg!ss-gBE2VLSfEpyRTMYK5VOFdx_pSW4e5k8U7hArZhtkos3tYM5uHlFUeBd8wANqQ8g$>
> </shibmd:Scope>
>
>
>
> <EntityDescriptor … entityID="urn:mace:incommon:alaska.edu
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/alaska.edu__;!!DZ3fjg!ss-gBE2VLSfEpyRTMYK5VOFdx_pSW4e5k8U7hArZhtkos3tYM5uHlFUeBd8wANqQ8g$>
> ">
>
> … <shibmd:Scope regexp="false">alaska.edu
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/alaska.edu__;!!DZ3fjg!ss-gBE2VLSfEpyRTMYK5VOFdx_pSW4e5k8U7hArZhtkos3tYM5uHlFUeBd8wANqQ8g$>
> </shibmd:Scope>
>
>
>
> David St. Pierre Bantz
>
> University of Alaska (alaska.edu
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