From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:28:24 -0400

Andrew,

Don't you think that we will be moving to two-step verification soon
and will not be using IP authentication any more?

Joe Esposito


On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:22 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Andrew Pitts <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:13:05 +0000
>
> We hope members of this list will be interested in this news, given
> the concerns about the use of IP addresses as an authentication method
> for scholarly content.
>
> PSI, the organisation which helps publishers eliminate subscription
> fraud and IP misuse, has announced the launch of a global registry of
> IP addresses which we hope will benefit the whole community. The IP
> Registry will make it easier for libraries to communicate any changes
> in their authentication details to all publishers who sign up to use
> the service, saving them significant time and reducing errors. The
> registry already contains 1.5 billion validated IP addresses for over
> 60,000 content licensing organisations worldwide.
>
> The full Press Release can be seen below
>
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>
> Press Release: Oxford, UK 27th June 2016
>
> Publisher Solutions International Ltd (PSI) launch The IP Registry,
> which will solve major authentication problems experienced by
> publishers and libraries.
>
> PSI, the organisation which helps publishers eliminate subscription
> fraud and IP misuse, today announced the launch of a global registry
> of IP addresses.
>
> On average, 58% of IP ranges held by publishers are inaccurate, PSI
> have found. Because of this, a significant amount of content is open
> to unlicensed access, and libraries and publishers are likely to
> receive inaccurate usage statistics. Until now, the systems for
> keeping the IP ranges accurate and up to date have been cumbersome,
> time-consuming and inefficient for everyone involved.
>
> The IP Registry will make it easier for libraries to communicate any
> changes in their authentication details to all publishers who sign up
> to use the service, saving them significant time and reducing errors.
> The registry already contains 1.5 billion validated IP addresses for
> over 60,000 content licensing organisations worldwide.
>
> Andrew Pitts, Managing Director of PSI, said "We are the experts in
> this field as we have been working for over 10 years with leading
> publishers to identify IP misuse and abuse, cleaning up their
> authentication databases as we go along. As a result, we have a
> database of clean and accurate IP details for institutions all over
> the world. Given IP addresses are still the major method of
> authentication within in our community we know that this service will
> benefit publishers and their customers enormously. "
>
> Diane Costello, Executive Officer, Council of Australian University
> Librarians (CAUL), when asked to comment on the original idea said
> "This product should be an acquisition librarian's dream come true.
> PSI is constructing a reliable index of institutions' IP addresses
> which we will also keep up to date. This will save both publishers and
> their subscribing libraries a whole lot of trouble. From the library
> perspective, every time their institution updates their IP addresses,
> the librarian must notify all those publishers and platform vendors
> with whom they have an electronic relationship. Now, with The IP
> Registry, they need only need to do it once."
>
> Keith Abbott, Special Projects Manager, John Wiley & Sons commented
> "PSI has been a tremendous resource for us and our industry peers in
> identifying and preventing the continuation of subscription fraud
> around the world. More recently, their ability to use aggregated
> publisher data to perform a global IP address clean-up has been
> extremely valuable and has provided us with the information needed to
> develop a more accurate data set in which we now and will continue to
> have significant confidence."
>
> PSI is inviting libraries and publishers to find out more and register
> their interest in the product at www.theipregistry.org. PSI will be
> available at all major events through 2016, and are inviting people to
> contact them to make an appointment to meet and discuss the registry.
>
> About PSI
>
> Publisher Solutions International, Ltd. (PSI) is an independent
> third-party, which enables publishers and membership societies to work
> together securely and confidentially towards the common goal of
> eliminating subscription abuse and IP misuse.
>
> PSI is the brainchild of two veterans of the publishing world who hold over
>
> 30 years of STM publishing experience. It was during their work for
> major publishers that they recognised the extent of IP misuse and
> subscription abuse, the damage it was causing, and the need to
> identify a viable means of putting a stop to it.
>
> About The IP Registry
>
> The IP Registry is a single repository of the validated IP addresses
> for over 60,000 content licensing organisations worldwide, accessible
> by both publishers and libraries and maintained for the benefit of the
> whole scholarly communication community by PSI, based in Oxford, UK
> and Boston, USA.
>
> Contact Andrew Pitts for more information:
> Telephone: +44 (0)1865 849 514
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> Web: www.theipregistry.org
> Twitter: @ip_registry