Andy,
I have no help to offer since I have no experience of this. But on a
philosophical note, it has always worried me when SPs start requiring
changes to standard attributes to fit their licensing model. At that stage
an entitlement seems like a much better idea..
On a potentially slightly more helpful note - maybe enough interested
parties can get together and discuss these issues at FAM10. This sort of
issue does appear to be a common when the JISC-Shibboleth community gets
together.
Mark?
/Rod
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> Subject: BoB National Set-Up
>
> Hi,
>
> Our institution has taken out a subscription to BoB Online (Box of
> Broadcasts), at first sight I thought it would be an easy setup, they
> just need an ePE value released, but then I read a bit more closely:
>
> >
> > As BoB National and it's users operate under the terms and conditions
> of the
> > ERA+ licence, it is necessary to have a mechanism in place for
> identifying a
> > small group of users, mainly institutions with overseas students will
> need to
> > be able to restrict their access as ERA+ only covers UK mainland.
> This is why
> > BoB National requires a third attribute:
> > urn:mace:dir:attribute-def:eduPersonEntitlement
> >
>
> So, according to the above I have to set a value in ePE if, and only
> if, the user is physically located on the UK mainland... ??
>
> However, I've found some other sites who say "Recordings made under
> the ERA licence can only be viewed by University staff or students in
> the UK. BoB detects the geographic location of the IP address of the
> users computer and blocks overseas connections"
> (http://www2.surrey.ac.uk/cead/learningandteaching/technologyuse/availa
> bletech/bob/) which seems to imply that BoB applies the restriction
> for us?
>
> Would anyone who's been here already (or for that matter anyone else
> with some good ideas!) like to comment?
>
> Cheers
> Andy
>
>
>
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