Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and Shibboleth

"OpenID is a single sign-on system for the Internet which puts people in charge. OpenID is a user-centric technology which allows a person to have control over how their Identity is both managed and used online. By being decentralised there is no single server with which every OpenID-enabled service and every user must register. Rather, people make their own choice of OpenID Provider, the service that manages their OpenID. "

Four case studies were undertaken in the course of this project with partial funding from an Extending the Reach (ETR) grant from the National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative-Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies (NMI-EDIT) Consortium. The fifth case documents UT System's work in developing the UT System Federation: Case Study 1: Middleware Outsourcing Feasibility Study Case Study 2: Baylor College of Medicine/UT Health Science Center at Houston Shibboleth Project Case Study 3: Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas Medical Center (HAM-TMC) Library Shibboleth Proxy Service Case Study 4: Shibboleth Version of Employee Benefits Annual Enrollment Application UT System Case Study: The University of Texas System Identity Management Federation