SIS SIG - Meeting 1 - 2023.09.13

Participants

Agenda

1. Welcome / introductions
2. Review of SIG goals
3. Level 1 error messages – possible technical improvements (Vinaya)
4. Difficult extensions, data model designs or business logic at the API interface (review Ed-Fi efforts to improve this + feedback/proposals for other solutions) (Eric)
5. Validation error management

Notes

SIG Goals discussion

• MSP ecosystem and SIs create the problems with fragmentation, not just states - we need to think about ways to also address improvement there
• Ed-Fi could benefit from use cases for data elements to make the semantics clear

Actions

• Action: add MSP and SIs and to goal #3
• Action: add more semantics to goal #1

Validation errors

Thoughts on dependency order failures?

• Farther down in hierarchy the errors are harder
• The killer: if the student resource is missing, the error is bad. Note: this has been fixed.
• Missing dependencies generate massive retries
• What is the responsibility of vendors with regards to support for dependency order? Is expectation that vendors check dependencies? Opposing view from SIS systems was presented
  • Perspective 1: the API should send back a clear error message saying that a dependency was missing
  • Perspective 2: the vendor should check dependencies before messages are sent and not send them if those are missing

Topic for Next meeting:

• Review state alignment work
• Review playbooks
• Use cases that underlay our specifications

Materials