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["Christos Kanellopoulos" <christos.kanellopoulos AT geant.org>]

Dear Valeriu,

The short answer is that if in Romania you have a nation wide student number, you should use the scheme with the <country-code>. In the majority of the countries this is not the case and they use the scheme which the the schacHomeOrganization (<sHO>). In that scheme the <code> is the student number that user has been assigned by their institution.

We have a working group dedicated for the ESI deployment. I suggest that we follow up the discussion there. I will follow up with you off this list to make sure that are added to that working group

Christos

On 29 Oct 2021, at 9:44, Valeriu Vraciu wrote:

Hello,

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, so any pointers to other sources of information are also much appreciated.

Universities within our federation are catching-up with projects/environments that aim to ease students' mobility in respect to their identification and asked about how to deal with attributes needed for this.
Particularly, the construction of European Student Identifier (ESI) as it is suggested at [1] is in debate, the second form seems to be suitable (urn:schac:personalUniqueCode:int:esi:<sHO>:<code>), but we are seeking for information about what other federations recommended to their constituency, mainly regarding what to use for <code> part in above form, or/and if there are any country-level regulations dealing with this so uniqueness is somehow guaranteed if the other form (urn:schac:personalUniqueCode:int:esi:<country-code>:<code>) is used.


Thank you and best wishes,
Valeriu.


[1] https://wiki.geant.org/display/SM/European+Student+Identifier

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