This archive highlights information about the PENS specification and related events from 2005, the year the PENS was submitted to and approved by the AICC.

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PENS at Elliott Masie's Learning 2005: Presentation and demo by several vendors supporting PENS. A narrated slide overview is available online from the Learning 2005 Wiki (13 slides ~12 minutes). Vendors participating included: EEDO Knowledgeware , HarvestRoad, Macromedia, Plateau, and Recombo

• AICC AGR 011 - CBT Package Exchange Notification (PENS) [PDF format, ~195K]
• AICC CMI010 - Package Exchange Notification Services (PENS) [PDF format, ~645K]

• Visit the AICC PENS Sample HTML request form

PENS Draft Specification Submitted to AICC : The work group team submits draft documentation as documents labeled AICC AGR-011 and AICC CMI-010 at AICC January 2005 Meetings in Miami. Additional interoperability demonstrations are performed and presentations are made showing PENS implementation plans and options. The PENS documents are available for review during a comment period. Subject to reviewer comment, a final draft will be submitted for ballot in June 2005.

PENS Discussion Forum available on AICC Web Site : To facilitate collaboration and review of PENS specifications, the AICC creates a discussion forum- CMI010 (PENS) - Package Exchange Notification Services Forum.