(PR) 15-day Public Review for SAML V2.0 Kerberos Web Browser SSO Profile Version 1.0

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

SAML V2.0 Kerberos Web Browser SSO Profile Version 1.0

Committee Specification Draft 02 / Public Review Draft 02

29 November 2011

Specification Overview:

The SAML V2.0 Kerberos Web Browser SSO Profile allows for transport of  
assertions using the Kerberos subject confirmation method by standard HTTP  
user agents with no modification of client software and maximum compatibility  
with existing deployments. The flow is similar to standard Web Browser SSO,  
but a Kerberos AP-REQ message is presented by the user agent via the HTTP  
Negotiate authentication scheme and the Kerberos GSS-API mechanism. The  
presentation of a valid Kerberos AP-REQ message whose client principal name  
matches the principal name given in the subject confirmation strengthens the  
assurance of the resulting authentication context and protects against  
credential theft. 

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 5 December 2011 and ends 20 December 2011. The  
specification was previously submitted for a 60-day public review [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 with the  
specification.

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/44507/sstc-saml-kerberos-browser-sso-csprd02.zip

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

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 located via the button labeled "Send A  
Comment" at the top of the TC public home, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=security

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of  
this TC are 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 Kerberos Web Browser SSO 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 (SAML) TC

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=security

[2] 60-day public review, 16 April 2010:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201004/msg00005.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#s10.2.2

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Best Regards,

/chet

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Chet Ensign

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OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

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