AICC Homepage: http://www.aicc.org/

Implemented Specifications:

AICC CMI 001 (the most well known and historic spec of AICC, last release v4):

http://aicc.org/pages/down-docs-index.htm#cmi001

The v4 PDF: http://aicc.org/docs/tech/cmi001v4.pdf

AICC CMI010 PENS (Package Exchange Notification Services).

http://aicc.org/pages/down-docs-index.htm#cmi010

The v1.0a PDF: http://aicc.org/docs/tech/cmi010v1a.pdf

See below for more details and information about EIfEL work in this area.

Other interesting work :

AICC CMI012 Packaging specs:

The v1.0 PDF: http://aicc.org/docs/tech/cmi012v1.pdf

AICC CMI013 CMI for XML:

The v1.0 PDF: http://aicc.org/docs/tech/cmi013v1.pdf

--> to study if this is related and compliant with IEEE LTSC 1484.12.3-2005 IEEE Standard for Learning Technology-Extensible Markup Language (XML) Schema Definition Language Binding for Learning Object Metadata

http://aicc.org/pages/press-release-41.htm

These last specs are related also to a more complex work on offline tracking under the name of CMI009: and the draft doc: http://aicc.org/pages/review.htm http://aicc.org/review/cmi009/Offline%20CMI%20v23.doc

AICC CMI010 PENS (Package Exchange Notification Services).

http://aicc.org/pages/down-docs-index.htm#cmi010

The v1.0a PDF: http://aicc.org/docs/tech/cmi010v1a.pdf

EIfEL Action:

EIfEL in collaboration with AICC has launched a French speaking working group to study the evolution of the PENS specifications in order to add the two actually missing but planned commands in v1 ("revise" and "delete" in addition to the "collect" one).

EIfEL has also include these specifications in its plugfest programme during iLearningForum event (http://www.ilearnforum.eu/)

More links:

AICC Press Release: http://www.aicc.org/pages/press-release-37.htm

Pens Community Website: http://pens.lmstesting.com/

Information from CEN: http://www.cen-ltso.org/Users/main.aspx?noti=435

Update (http://www.cen-ltso.net/Users/main.aspx?noti=435&Lang=eng): AICC PENS Update ( 20/03/2006 ) PENS Sample Code and PENS Specification Updated The PENS Sample Code has been updated to include PHP code that acts as a PENS server to verify PENS commands, and improve the HTML test harness. It is available for download now from:

http://aicc.org/pages/pens_sample.html

The sample HTML files now include more default value for PENS elements, and a minor correction was made to address a typo in the QTI package type (was incorrectly "lms-qti" and is now corrected to "ims-qti"). The package-id generation and formatting was also updated, and notes were added to the form explaining special vendor-data values for use with the PHP-based PENS validation code.

Separately, the PENS specification has been updated to correct a typo in the sample value for the package-expiry element, as noted in the AICC PENS discussion forum in November 2005. The Acrobat version of the PENS specification document has been updated to provide hyperlinks to document subsections and to allow copy and paste operations. Download the current CMI010 PENS (Package Exchange Notification Services) document from the AICC Publications page.

eLearning blog on AICC PENS: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/tking/archives/standards/index.cfm

Presentation of Pens from ADL Plugfest 9 http://www.adlnet.gov/downloads/98.cfm