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Hi Andy,
                We've set this up and leave it to BoB to apply the 
geographic restriction.  I got a couple
of replies from this list at the time, I thought I also checked with BoB 
but can't find the relevant
email just now.

I decided trying to work out where my VPN users were coming in from and 
passing that to the
IDP wasn't really an option.

Cheers,
          Duncan


Andy Swiffin wrote:
> 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/availabletech/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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