Using Shibboleth within a Multi-Campus
Institution
Like many similar institutions, the University of California assigns a
great deal of autonomy to each of its campuses. In particular,
each campus has operational responsibility for the identity management
of its community, as well as for the vast majority of network-based
services provided to those communities. There are, however,
notable system-wide services that require access to identity
information. UC is developing a prototype federation of its
campuses in a way that can be trusted to manage access to its
centrally-provided self-service employee benefits system. This
has "raised the bar" with respect to what is required of each campus's
identity management practices to create the environment of inter-campus
(but intra-institutional) trust that is required to enable broad
sharing of services among the campuses.