InCommon Federation Discussions About Online Student Services

[Brendan Bellina <>]

I think also that there is a limitation that the University Student ID  
used cannot exceed 20 characters in length. This may rule out use of  
ePTID. NSC can confirm.

Regards,

Brendan Bellina
Univ of Southern California

On Jun 12, 2009, at 7:43 AM,  wrote:

> At 3:10 PM -0700 6/10/09, tblack wrote:
> > All,
> >    I am happy to announce that we have finally completed our  
> > implementation of the first phase of our pilot.  Phase 2, staff  
> > access via Shibboleth, will commence momentarily.  I'll be in  
> > Washington, D.C. (Herndon, VA more precisely) next week to discuss  
> > to next steps, among other things.  I would like to know who of you  
> > would like to make the move to Phase 1, student access via  
> > Shibboleth, within the next few months.  Please identify yourselves  
> > by Friday so I can have an accurate number to present to NSC when I  
> > talk to them next week.
>
> just looking for some information, so I can have an informed  
> discussion with our Registrar's Office....
>
> Phase 1 offers Federated Access to NSC's "order a student  
> transcript" application? Anything else?
>
> The new use case would be:  student clicks a link on the local  
> registrar's web page that is labelled "order a transcript"; They are  
> redirected to the local Shibboleth IdP; they authenticate; the local  
> IdP release WHICH ATTRIBUTES? ; they are redirected to an "order a  
> transcript" page at NSC; the user does something? on this page; the  
> user clicks the "order a transcript" button; ....
>
> the person's order gets added to the Q at NSC; the business process  
> between NSC and the local Registrar's Office remains the same ? (ie  
> the process NSC uses to send the requests back to the local  
> Registrar).
>
> Does the old "fax a sheet of paper" process remain in place, for  
> people who are so inclined?
>
> thanks very much!