[AI] Keith: will draft a document with eduCourse applied best practices for handing use cases with Shibboleth.
[AI] Barry: will draft a use case based on providing access to nursing courses at UTHSC-H to UT-Galveston, contrasting possible approaches.

MACE CourseID Conference Call October 25th 2004

*Attendees*
Keith Hazelton, U. Wisconsin
Paul Hill, MIT
Barry Ribbeck, UTHSC-H
Scott Cantor, OSU
Tom Barton, U. Chicago
Jeanette Fielden, Internet2
Renee Frost, Internet2
Steve Olshansky, Internet2

*Discussion*
The latest version of the Globally Unique Identifier for Course Offerings is at:
http://arch.doit.wisc.edu/keith/i2/drafts/draft-courseid-offering-unique-id-03.htm

Changes are limited to sections 3 and 4 and consist of minor word-smithing. There were no other changes suggested. Scott Cantor indicated that keying/obtaining the metadata referred to is another possible use case.

EduCourse document suite:
The following documents would be good to include in the NMI R6 slated for release on December 6th, 2004.
- The eduCourse data model located at:http://middleware.internet2.edu/courseid/docs/draft-internet2-courseID-eduCourse-01.html
- The Globally Unique Identifier for Course Offerings
- urn:mace:dir:attribute-def namespace additions
- LDAP bindings for eduCourse
- eduCourse applied best practices document for handing use cases with Shibboleth.

Barry talked about the desire to offer UT-Galveston access to nursing courses at UTHSC-H. Galveston does have Shibboleth running. They could use Shib to restrict access to the Blackboard site. A value for access will have to be provided and likely batch populated on the back-end. The value would be an entitlement value not a courseID value.

The caution is that entitlements can often not provision off an existing administration system. Student systems generally have enrollment information but often don’t have much information on course leaders, particularly if they are from another institution.

Tom indicated that at Tennessee the learning management system is hosted with students assigned a home campus and courses are not included.

In general exception cases can be problematic. For example, MIT may bring in an engineer from a large corporation to remote teach a course. The corporation does not want the engineer to authenticate to MIT from their system. So direct authentication is needed. Another example is working with architects that don’t have a system to authenticate to, and don’t want to set one up. So the creation of internal accounts will need to be facile to accommodate exceptions.

Collection of additional use cases and coordinating with groups like the IMS remains important.

The next NMI release, 6, is scheduled for Monday December 6th, 2004. Blurbs for the website are needed no later than November 22nd, with final finished documents due by December 1st, 2004.