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This site contains resources, links, draft technical material, and draft documentation for the Ed-Fi Data Standard Request for Comments (RFC) process.
This space has not been actively maintained for the past few years and some of the content may be outdated. The Ed-Fi Alliance is actively working to revamp the content over the course of the next few months. Please reach out to us if you have any questions in the meantime and we will try to help clarify and/or expedite updates to particular RFC documents.
Active Ed-Fi RFC Documents
The Ed-Fi Alliance is actively soliciting comment on the following topics:
- ED-FI RFC 7 - CORE STUDENT DATA MANAGEMENT API
- ED-FI RFC 15 - ASSESSMENT OUTCOMES API
- ED-FI RFC 16 - CORE STUDENT DATA API
- ED-FI RFC 18 - FINANCE API
- ED-FI RFC 19 - ENROLLMENT API FOR SUITE 3
- ED-FI RFC 22 - ASSESSMENT OUTCOMES API
- ED-FI RFC 23 - API DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES
- ED-FI RFC 24 - CORE STUDENT API
- ED-FI RFC 25 - SURVEY API
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Community feedback is critical to the RFC process, and the Alliance welcomes feedback from anyone.
Feedback does not need to be long or comprehensive. It is enough to cite a particular K–12 use case where the technology would or would not be able to represent a common scenario. However, if readers have more lengthy written feedback, existing reports or alternative fully articulated data models, please feel free to share those.
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