Approval of SAML v2.0 as an OASIS Standard

OASIS members:

     The ballot for approval of SAML v2.0 as OASIS Standard, announced at [1], was completed with sufficient affirmative votes to
approve the specifications. However, because there were negative votes, the Security Services Technical Committee was required to
decide how to proceed, per the OASIS TC Process (at [2]).  The TC gave consideration to the negative votes but has voted to request
the specification be approved. (See [3].)

     We are pleased, therefore, to announce that SAML v2.0 has been approved as an OASIS Standard. The submission of the approved
standard can be found at [4].

     Congratulations to the TC, and the community of implementers, developers and users who have brought the work successfully to
culmination.

  Mary

Mary P McRae
OASIS 
Manager of TC Administration
http://www.oasis-open.org/who/staff.shtml

[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200502/msg00009.html
[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#standard
[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/security/email/archives/200503/msg00022.html
[4] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200502/msg00001.html