Seeking feedback on Idea Place Service Market Place logon issue work-around

For Idea Place [http://ideas.sap.com], Service Market Place (SMP) users AKA S-Users cannot login. We are investigating a solution and have several options and would like to get your feedback on the proposals.

The first option, is full Service Market Place users support for certificate Single Sign On (SSO) logon and username password login. This could take several months of time. This was initially planned for V2 later this year.

The second option is to support SMP user login with certificate only. This just refers to SMP users. Non-SMP SCN users and SAP employees would still be able to enter their username and password to login.

For SMP users who do not have a SMP certificate, they can easily go into SMP and request one, add it to their browser and then SSO into SCN and Idea Place.

The first option is ideal but will take a lot of time. What are your thoughts and concerns on the second option? Is this an acceptable solution?

Thanks

Kuhan

Edited by: Kuhan Milroy on May 26, 2010 11:22 PM