WOW this is a cool opportunity for the XRI/XDI crowd - along with CivicSpace.

Reported by Abject Learning in May:

What did we propose to do? Nothing less than creating and sharing a framework for social software applications for BC's higher education institutions. In less grandiose terms, we have proposed to create a set of policy recommendations, tutorials, templates, and multimedia resources that can be reused by a school that wants to support weblogging and wiki use (and possibly other social software tools) for its own community. We also hope to foster a community-centered model for sharing expertise amongst practitioners attempting to develop their own projects.

We intend the project to be platform-agnostic: we will definitely be using Movable Type and Drupal, but do our best to ensure that resources we create are not tied in with any one system. If possible, we might partner with mini-projects using tools such as WordPress, ELGG, or even Blogger.

It seems like it would be a lot easier for students if they could use a single log-in I-name across different institutions and schools.