# Technical editor, SAML 2.0; architect, Shibboleth

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Last updated: 2026-09-20
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## Bio

Scott Cantor did most of the technical editing of the [SAML 2.0](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/saml-2-0/) specifications at OASIS and has been the architect and long-term maintainer of Shibboleth, the open-source SAML implementation that research and education federations run on. He splits his time between the Shibboleth Consortium, InCommon, Internet2 middleware work, and running single sign-on for Ohio State.

Profile built from public OASIS, consortium, and university records.

## Where their work shows up

SAML is often written off as legacy, which ignores that it still carries most enterprise and nearly all research-and-education federation, at a scale of thousands of institutions with no common vendor. Shibboleth is why that federation exists without one, and the precision of the SAML 2.0 text is why implementations from different decades still interoperate. See [SAML vs OIDC](https://startwithidentity.com/guides/fundamentals/saml-vs-oidc/) for how to choose between them today, and the [SAML 2.0 deep-dive](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/saml-2-0/).