[PR] 15-day Public Review for SAML 2.0 Profile of XACML, Version 2.0

The OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC [1] members  
have produced an updated Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted  
this specification for 15-day public review:

SAML 2.0 Profile of XACML, Version 2.0

Committee Specification Draft 04 / Public Review Draft 03

22 September 2011

Specification Overview:

This specification defines a profile for the integration of the OASIS  
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Version 2.0 with all versions of  
XACML. SAML 2.0 complements XACML functionality in many ways, so a number of  
somewhat independent functions are described in this profile: 

1) use of SAML 2.0 Attribute Assertions with XACML, including the use of  
SAML Attribute Assertions in a SOAP Header to convey Attributes that can be  
consumed by an XACML PDP,

2) use of SAML to carry XACML authorization decisions, authorization decision  
queries, and authorization decision responses,

3)use of SAML to carry XACML policies, policy queries, and policy query  
responses,

4) use of XACML authorization decisions or policies as Advice in SAML  
Assertions, and

5) use of XACML responses in SAML Assertions as authorization tokens. 

Particular implementations may provide only a subset of these functions.  

TC Description:

The XACML Technical Committee defines a core XML schema for representing  
authorization and entitlement policies.

Public Review Period:

The public review starts Friday, 14 October 2011 and ends 29 October 2011.  
The specification was previously submitted for a 30-day public review on 7  
May 2010 [2]. This 15-day review is limited in scope to changes made from the  
previous review. 

Changes are highlighted in the diff-marked PDF file included in the  
release package. 

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

URIs:

The complete package of the prose specification document and related files  
are available in the ZIP distribution file at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/43921/xacml-profile-saml2.0-v2-csprd03.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS eXtensible  
Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC may be found at the TC's public  
home page located at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the  
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be accessed via the button labeled "Send  
A Comment" at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=xacml

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of  
this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml-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. In connection with this public  
review of SAML 2.0 Profile of XACML, Version 2.0, we call your attention to  
the OASIS IPR Policy [3] applicable especially [4] to the work of this  
technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this  
document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and  
availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights  
that read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites any persons who  
know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the  
implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be  
posted to the notice page for this TC's work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xacml

[2] Previous public reviews

30-day public review, 7 May 2010:  
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201005/msg00003.html

60-day public review, 21 May 2009:  
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200905/msg00006.html

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/ipr.php

http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#s10.2.3

RF on Limited Terms

Best Regards,

/chet

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Chet Ensign

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OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

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