15-day Public Review for SAML 2.0 Session Token Profile Version 1.0

The OASIS Security Services TC [1] members have produced an updated  
Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for  
15-day public review:

SAML 2.0 Session Token Profile Version 1.0

Committee Specification Draft 03 / Public Review Draft 03

11 August 2011

Specification Overview:

Web Servers and Application Servers generally maintain security state  
information for currently active users, particularly once some type of  
authentication has occurred. This specification defines a format for  
communicating such security session state based on the OASIS SAML Assertion.  
It also specifies two different mechanisms for communicating this information  
between servers via a standard Web browser. 

Public Review Period:

The public review starts Monday, 3 October 2011 and ends 18 October 2011. The  
specification was previously submitted for a 15-day public review on 11 July  
2011 [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  
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/43741/saml-session-token-v1.0-csprd03.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS Security  
Services TC may be found at the TC's public home page located at:

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

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=security

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/security-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 Session Token Profile Version 1.0, 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 Security Services TC

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

[2] Previous public review (11 July 2011 through 26 July 2011):

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/security-services/201107/msg00008.html  

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

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

http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#types_obligations

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Best Regards,

/chet

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Chet Ensign

Director of Standards Development and TC Administration

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

http://www.oasis-open.org

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