member vs institute level

[Peter Schober]

* Keith Carr <kecarr at sgul.ac.uk> [2012-10-08 11:56]:
> The explanation that I was further given (not much of an explanation) was:-
> 
> " NPG has an agreement with the UK Federation, and has a list of all
> members - meaning that as a provider, we trust all members.
> Our software is set up to recognise a user's attributes on an
> institutional level ie. 'does the user belong to an institute which is
> part of the Federation?'
> SGUL's attributes are set at a level below this - so we need to change
> our system to check for attributes on a member (of an institution) level
> ie. 'is the user a member of X University?' And then 'is X university
> part of the UK Federation'?"
> 
> 
> We are part of the the UK Federation and so the explanation does not
> seem to make much sense? If it also does not make much sense to anybody
> else then I will go back to the publisher and take umbrage with
> them.

Not to me. Somewhere there seems to be the requirement to identify the
institutional or departmental affiliation (for members which are not
students; but maybe also for students, identifying their studies, like
the MSDNAA service did?) or that this is what they expected and what
you're not sending. But the part about they needing to change their
systems doesn't read like that kind of data is actually required.
No idea.
-peter