Public Review of SKSML v1.0 - 15 day review

To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists:

 

The OASIS Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure (EKMI)
TC has recently approved the following specification as a Committee Draft and
approved the package for public review:

 

Symmetric Key Services Markup Language (SKSML) Version
1.0

 

The public review starts today, 11 December 2008, and
ends 26 December 2008. This specification was previously submitted for a 60-day
public review on 24 Jul 08 - 23 Sep 08[1]; this 15-day review is limited in
scope to changes made from the previous review. All changes are noted below[2].

 

This is an open invitation to comment. We strongly
encourage feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS
members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of
OASIS work.

 

More non-normative information about the specification
and the technical committee may be found at the public home page of the TC at 

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ekmi].
Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS
TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button marked "Send A Comment"
at the top of that page, or directly at 

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=ekmi].

 

Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works
of that TC) are publicly archived and can be viewed at 

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ekmi-comment/.
All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License,
which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at
least as the obligations of the TC members.

 

The specification document and related files are
available here:

 

Editable Source:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ekmi/sksml/v1.0/pr02/SKSML-1.0-Specification.odt

 

PDF:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ekmi/sksml/v1.0/pr02/SKSML-1.0-Specification.pdf

 

HTML:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ekmi/sksml/v1.0/pr02/SKSML-1.0-Specification.html

 

The schema files are available at:

 

Schema:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ekmi/sksml/v1.0/pr02/schema/

 

OASIS and the EKMI TC welcome your comments.

 

 

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Mary P McRae

Director, Technical Committee Administration

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information
society

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phone: 1.603.232.9090

 

[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00011.html

[2] changes since last Public Review:

1) Section 3.9 - added an example of a Request for a
symmetric key with an Encryption Certificate

2) Section 3.12 - added an example of a Response with a
pending Request ID

3) Section 3.13 - added an example of a Request with an
update of a pending Request ID

4) Section 4.4 - added definition for
<X509EncryptionCertificate> element

5) Section 4.5 - added definition for
<SymkeyRequestID> element

6) Section 4.6 - modified definition of
<SymeyResponse> to now also return a <SymkeyWorkInProgress> element

7) Section 4.8 - added definition for
<SymkeyWorkInProgress> element

8) Section 4.9 - modified definition of
<SymkeyError> to now also return errors related to
<SymkeyWorkInProgress> elements

9) Section 4.30 - added definition for Use of SKMS Error
Codes and Messages

10) Appendix C - added Standard Error Codes and Messages

11) Appendix D - added process definition for Vendors to
apply for a reserved block of codes