Just to be clear... I think our intent was to approve actual wording at
the next meeting. So this isn't actualy going to be delivered anywhere
right now. Correct?
Eve
Mishra, Prateek wrote:
> Folks,
>
>
>
> this is the proposed text of the message we plan to send to WS-Security
> authors.
> I am circulating it to the list as (1) we voted on the contents on the
> message, not
> its exact form, so here is a last chance to object, (2) neither jeff nor
> joe was on the
> call, so here is a chance for them to object.
>
>
>
> Bob M. and Prateek
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
>
>
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> In April 2002, Microsoft and IBM jointly published a document entitled
>
> "Security in a Web Services World: A Proposed Architecture and
>
> Roadmap" (http://www.verisign.com/wss/architectureRoadmap.pdf), and
>
> Microsoft, IBM, and VeriSign published a companion specification, "Web
>
> Services Security (WS-Security) Version 1.0"
>
> (http://www.verisign.com/wss/wss.pdf). The OASIS Security Services
>
> Technical Committee, which has produced the Security Assertion Markup
>
> Language (SAML) specification, considers these documents to be
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> important contributions to web services security. The SSTC views the
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> WS-Security technical specification as complementary to SAML, and
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> intends to use WS-Security in specifying the use of SAML for adding
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> security features to SOAP messages.
>
> The SSTC urges the authors of the WS-Security specification to submit
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> the specification to an open standards body for further development,
>
> standardization, and building of industry consensus. In particular,
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> intellectual property rights issues regarding this specification and
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> its technologies should be addressed to enable broad use of this work.
>
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