Re: [security-services] XNS vs. SAML

I've looked at XNS occasionally over the last couple of years.  It isn't
clear that it's a happening activity at this point.  There are a goodly
number of "digital identity" schemes out there these days, see

  http://weblog.digital-identity.info/

for someone's site with news and pointers to many of them.

As far as I know there is no technical connection between SAML and XNS,
nor any participation from XNS-interested folk in the SAML standardization
process.

 - RL "Bob"


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matan Safriel [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 10:41 AM
> To: 
> Subject: [security-services-comment] XNS vs. SAML
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> Is XNS a separate effort unsupported by oasis and the SAML effort and
> what parts of SAML replace the XNS protocol and capabilities ?
>
> Is XNS mutually exclusive with the SAML protocol ?
>
> (Is there a reference from oasis publications to the XNS "identity protocol"
>
> ?)
>
> Thanks,
>
>    Matan