From: Andrew Pitts <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 09:29:46 +0000
Dear Joe,
Thank you for your question. I am sure that two stage authentication
will be implemented by tens or even hundreds of institutions over the
next few years, leaving tens of thousands doing it “the old way”.
However, the hundreds of institutions that will implement a Federated
Access solution coupled with a second step authentication will most
likely still implement a fall-back position of IP authentication where
their preferred authentication method doesn’t work with a given
publisher. The world is a long way from doing away with IP
authentication.
We have collected global site license IP Address and customer data
from over 150 Publishers from 218 countries, territories, or areas of
geographical interest and has created a database containing naming
standards for 60,000 academic, corporate and government institutions
including verified IP addresses. This amounts to a staggering
collection of IP addresses totalling more than 1.5 billion!
Andrew
TheIpRegistry
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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.
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