Access Management for Networked Information Resources.

Introduction Over the past year the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has been leading a broad-based exploration of access management and authentication issues that are emerging as institutions share resources and license access to published materials through the Web. Scores of institutions and content providers participated in the discussion and contributed to the development of a lengthy white paper that is now being cast into final form; both the draft from the spring of 1998 and, when completed, the final version, can be found at CNI’s website <http://www.cni.org/>. The interested reader is urged to consult this white paper for a much more in-depth discussion of the issues summarized here.