FW: status report - submit specs to ITU

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-----Original Message-----
From: Karl F. Best [mailto:] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 11:48 AM
To: ; Philpott, Robert; ;

Cc: 'Patrick Gannon'; 'James (Jamie) Bryce Clark'
Subject: status report - submit specs to ITU

Prateek, Rob, Hal, Bill:

I have been corresponding with the folks at ITU in regards to our 
proposed submission of SAML v1.1 and XACML v1.0 to ITU-T SG17 for 
approval under the ITU process. Everyone that I've been working with, 
from the SG chair all the way up to the head of ITU, is very happy to 
see this happen.

Here's a quick status:

* I will make the submission under OASIS' A.5 status with ITU-T. As 
specified by the OASIS Liaison Policy, I will specify that OASIS retains 
the right for continued maintenance and revision of the specs. The 
submission will be made to the SG chair, who will then conduct the 
review and voting within the SG. The end result would be an ITU-T 
Recommendation for each of the submitted specs. Ocassionally an SG will 
vote to accept the specs only with changes.

* There will be some paperwork to submit, which I will take care of. If 
there's any additional information that I don't have then I'll get back 
to you.

* The schedule appears to be that as long as I get the submission 
completed by the first of the year (the sooner is better) then SG17 will 
be able to consider the submission at their meeting in March. I intend 
to get this done in the next couple of weeks, so we'll be okay there.

* SG17 has requested that we select one or more technical 
representatives who would be available to subscribe to the SG17 mail 
list, answer questions related to the specifications, and attend the 
SG17 meeting 10-19 March 2004 in Geneva. I'm assuming that this person 
or persons will be the technical champion for the specs within SG17. Is 
there someone from the TCs who would be willing to do this?

-Karl

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