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It seems to me that such SPs need to wake up to the 21 century and the fact that we now live in a global village. Many institutions have overseas students who may return home during vacations to see family, where federated access allows them to seemlessly continue with any coursework. There are also overseas campuses where students engage in courses run from the UK but may never set foot here. As registered students they should surely be allowed access regardless of whether they are in Dundee or Dar es Salam. hmm, tailored software with a GPS which only delivers the content if you are in a specific location at midnight on midsummers day ... Colin. On 31/08/10 10:49, Andy Swiffin wrote: >>>> On 31/08/2010 at 10:18, in message<[log in to unmask]>, "Duncan > B. Brannen"<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> 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. > > Thanks Duncan, > > This is what I thought and had found other links saying that they did the blocking. It's odd that they're a bit confused and seem to be asking me to do the blocking here (which I'm not sure I can do!). > >> >> 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. > > me too. > > And I'm afraid you're out in the (Bulgarian) cold then Dom, no TV for you! > > Did anyone think the ePE value a little odd? I've queried this with the federation helpdesk, they're asking me to deliver: "BUFVC_BOB-NATIONAL". I thought that ePE values that are let loose in the wild are all supposed to be URIs: From Technical Recommendations for Participants: "Values of eduPersonEntitlement take the form of a URI, most frequently using the http or urn schemes." > > Cheers > Andy -- Colin Farrow Computing Service, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel: 0141 330 4862, Email: [log in to unmask] ---