I assume you can get more information from the UNED that is running .LRN at the moment and hosts the Alfanet site at:
http://alfanet.ia.uned.es/
http://alfanet.ia.uned.es/
According to http://rtd.softwareag.es/alfanet/ Alfanet is a EU funded project with a multitude of players. Interesting though that Software AG acts as the coordinator.