SIF Infrastructure Specification 3.7
The SIF Infrastructure is a well-defined REST API designed to deliver maximum flexibility and advanced capabilities. Maintaining interoperable designs every-step-of-the-way allows you to start small and grow without boundaries! From simple direct solutions to fully brokered ecosystems the API is highly consistent especially for Service Consumers. Adoption has shown that the most popular ecosystem design is currently the Data Hub, which includes an operational data store in the middle to seamlessly service requests and better support multiple standards.
This latest release builds on the previous version, introducing technical advances and benefits as follows:
- Move Zone, Context, and Last Message Indicators: Changing how we handle certain data in our system to make sure it works better with major cloud providers. Instead of using HTTP Matrix Parameters, we are moving to using HTTP Header and Path Parameters. This update will improve compatibility and help ensure our services are ready for the future.
- Clarify Asynchronous Choreography Details: Making it easier to understand how the SIF Specification handles delayed responses by updating our documentation. These updates focus on areas like paging, service paths, tracking changes, and special queries. Additionally, for certain types of responses, we will no longer require the ‘content-type’ header for successful responses that don’t have any content. These changes will make it easier to integrate systems and improve reliability.
- Building on Our Previous Quality Release: Further refining documentation and enhancing error reporting to streamline the integration experience. These clarifications and improvements help implementers better understand and troubleshoot the specification, ultimately delivering a more robust and user-friendly standard. By providing clearer guidance on handling errors and documenting common integration scenarios, the SIF Infrastructure Specification 3.7 empowers technology providers to diagnose and resolve issues more efficiently, ensuring smoother data exchange and greater interoperability in the global education marketplace.
SIF Infrastructure Specification 3.7 documentation
The Standardized Infrastructure can carry any Data Model ‘On The Wire’
The globally used SIF Infrastructure defines the transport and messaging functionality over the “wire” where payloads are securely exchanged—no matter the payload/data model.
The standardized Infrastructure has been third-party ‘load tested’ and results show ‘data bottlenecks’ are not being seen. Without over-stressing a performance load test, over 200 million data messages were sent in an hour which is 286 times increase in throughput performance compared with previous models!
Privacy and the SIF Infrastucture
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) has changed the privacy landscape and the Global SIF Infrastructure has risen to the challenge by including a Privacy Obligation Document (POD) service. These PODs describe: laws, contract clauses, obligations, benchmarks, retainment rules, and key contacts. The Global SIF Infrastructure makes GDPR compliance affirmable with every exchange and key parts of it enforceable through our Data Protection Enforcer Service model.
To find additional information about the Privacy Obligation Document (POD) and the Global Education Privacy Standard (GEPS) currently being developed by the Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), please click here >>
