OpenAthens Ideas Portal

We're always looking for ways to improve our products, and we'd love your input to help us make that happen. Your suggestions will guide us in deciding where we should focus our future research and development.

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Here’s how the portal is organised:

  • Librarians (Identity Providers): Share ideas that help organisations that manage user identities and provide access to online content and services. This includes improving the experience for students and researchers.

  • Publishers (Service Providers): Share ideas for organisations that offer content and services.


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Status Feedback wanted
Workspace Librarians
Categories Accessing resources Proxy
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 15, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

IPv6 support for OpenAthens

We were notified by a few vendors that their platform now relies on IPv6 for access while OpenAthens currently supports IPv4 only and have no plans to implement it at this time. This creates access failures as more vendors and networks transition to IPv6. Adding IPv6 support would prevent these issues and future‑proof the service. I’m requesting that OpenAthens implement IPv6 recognition for authentication workflows

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? Yes
Idea type Something to improve
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Jan 16, 2026

    Thank you for raising this idea. Just so we're clear - this is in relation to the OpenAthens managed proxy service?

    It would also help us to know which vendors in particular you are facing this challenge with, if you are comfortable to share that information.

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  • Guest
    Jan 18, 2026

    The vendors that have moved to IPv6 support include the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and Pidgeon Digital. And yes, both are already configured in OpenAthens with proxy access.

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