Course Identifier Standardisation Work Started
Wilbert Kraan,
CETIS,
Jul 25, 2003
In a nutshell, "Some means needs to be found of making sure that only those who are enrolled in a course can see the material. One part of that puzzle is authenticating students properly and then authorizing them. A lot of this is already taken of in systems like Shibboleth - the Internet2 standard for authentication and authorisation. But Shibboleth - or other systems like the UK's Angel or Athens - need to know about courses before it can automatically authenticate Jane Doe to access some confidential statistics from the Home Office for her Immigration Law course." And, "For that reason, the Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE) of US academic institutions that partcipate in Internet2 have started developing a schema that will make the identifiers interoperable."
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