Internet2 (the US networking consortium for the research and education community - akin to Janet in the UK) has just announced a Shibboleth collaboration project with Microsoft, to develop interoperability with the Windows CardSpace system.

Before we go any further, let's deal with the basics:

Visit http://blogs.msdn.com/ukfe/archive/2007/05/25/do-you-shibboleth.aspx for the complete article.

The video is well worth looking at <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/themes/access_management/federation/animation >