MIT and Harvard have been on the Internet since the early 1970s. They had fully deployed campus networks before most people in the U.S. even had dial-up connection. Both schools have diverse user populations with tens of thousands of highly mobile members. The best identity management systems can be easily integrated with a wide variety of legacy systems. MIT’s system is used for e-mail, file access and even for sending jobs to the printer. But in many ways they offer similar functionality and have similar problems.”]
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