15-day Public Review for SAML V2.0 Change Notify Protocol 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 V2.0 Change Notify Protocol Version 1.0

    Committee Specification Draft 02 / Public Review Draft 02

    17 May 2011

Specification Overview:

The SAML V2.0 Change Notify Protocol describes request and response messages   
for informing SAML endpoints about available changes to subjects and   
attributes associated with subjects. 

TC Description:

The Security Services TC continue developing a new number of feature  
enhancements of the SAML 2.0 OASIS Standard.

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 9 August 2011 and ends 24 August 2011. The  
specification was previously submitted for a 15-day public review on 4 April  
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 [3].

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 prose specification document and related files are available here:

Editable Source (Authoritative):

http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/sstc-saml2-notify-protocol/v1.0/csprd02/sstc-saml2-notify-protocol-v1.0-csprd02.odt

HTML:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/sstc-saml2-notify-protocol/v1.0/csprd02/sstc-saml2-notify-protocol-v1.0-csprd02.html

PDF:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/sstc-saml2-notify-protocol/v1.0/csprd02/sstc-saml2-notify-protocol-v1.0-csprd02.pdf

XML Schemas:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/sstc-saml2-notify-protocol/v1.0/csd02/xml/

ZIP distribution files (complete):

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose  
specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download  
the ZIP file here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/sstc-saml2-notify-protocol/v1.0/csprd02/sstc-saml2-notify-protocol-v1.0-csprd02.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS Security  
Services (SAML) 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-services-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 V2.0 Change Notify Protocol Version 1.0, we call your  
attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [4] applicable especially [5] 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.

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Additional references:

[1] OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC

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

[2]  
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201104/msg00003.html

[3]  
http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/sstc-saml2-notify-protocol/v1.0/csprd02/sstc-saml2-notify-protocol-v1.0-csprd02-diff.pdf

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

[5] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/ipr.php
http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#s10.2.2

RF on RAND

Best Regards,

/chet

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Chet Ensign

Director of Standards Development and TC Administration

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