Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
The authors, who all work in Germany, are from left to right: Bernd Oberknapp, Ato Ruppert, Franck Borel and Jochen Lienhard
Proxies and virtual private nets (VPNs) gateways are often shared by departments of a university, making it impossible to license a resource with IP access control for just one department without excluding proxy and VPN access, in many cases excluding remote access and even wireless networks at the same time
All methods used for remote access via IP access control like VPNs, proxies, rewriting proxies and proprietary methods offered by some publishers have severe disadvantages, with most of them failing in critical situations
Summary
The authors, who all work in Germany, are from left to right: Bernd Oberknapp, Ato Ruppert, Franck Borel and Jochen Lienhard. A Shibboleth-based authentication and authorization infrastructure (AAI) offers a solution for these issues. For this reason the AAR project was begun in 2005 with the goal of building a Shibboleth infrastructure for both German higher education and research and for the Internet portal for scientific and scholarly information called vascoda. The project attracted a very high level of interest. This article describes how we built the Shibboleth infrastructure and it will show the current status of the DFNAAI federation for German higher education and research
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