RE: [xspa] steps requiered to vote (XSPA) Profile of WS-Trust for Healthcare to TC specification.

Colleagues,

 

We should all be aware of the “Governing the OASIS Technical
Committee Process” available at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php

 

Section 3 lists the steps of the standards approval process.  Before the TC can approve its Committee
Draft as a Committee Specification the TC must conduct a public review of the
work.  We have completed that
process and now must take our “Public Review Draft” back to “Committee
Draft” and approve the changes suggested by Duane if approved by the
TC.  

 

If Substantive Changes are made to the specification after the public
review, whether as a result of public review comments or from TC Member input,
then the TC must conduct another (15 day) review cycle.  

 

“Substantive Change” is:

a
change to a specification that would require a compliant application or
implementation to be modified or rewritten in order to remain compliant.
  

 

I propose that the addition of the diagram and text to the draft do not
constitute a substantive change. 
That means we are free to vote our updated committee draft to Committee
Specification.  The approval of a
Committee Specification shall require a Special Majority Vote.

 

"Special
Majority Vote" is a TC vote in which at least
2/3 (two thirds) of the Voting Members vote "yes" and no more than
1/4 (one fourth) of the Voting Members vote "no". […] All
Special Majority Votes must be conducted via electronic ballot by the OASIS TC
Administrator. 

 

Therefore I will suggest we take these steps at the call this
Friday.  Please carefully review the
document Duane submitted and bring all your comments.  The Committee
Specification cannot be changed – even for slight corrections.  We would have to take it back to
committee draft and re-do the electronic vote.  So please read the draft and bring any
changes to the call.  Pay special
attention to the XML in our examples, since we have to state that the XML is “well
formed.” 

 

We can easily make changes to draft on Friday and vote to submit it for
electronic vote by the TC for a Committee Specification “on condition
that the suggested changes be incorporated into the draft.”  So bring your final changes and we will
work them into the draft – or send them to Duane before the meeting.

 

Please note:  

 

Simultaneously with the approval
of a Committee Specification or at a later date, and after three Statements of
Use have been presented to the TC, a TC may resolve by Special Majority Vote to
submit the Committee Specification to the Membership of OASIS for consideration
as an OASIS Standard. 

 

For the members who demonstrated the profile, please ask approval for to
release a “statement of use” and include your organizational
member.  A statement of use is:

 

"Statement of
Use", with respect to a specification, is a
written statement by an OASIS Organizational Member stating that it is
successfully using or implementing that specification in accordance with the
conformance clauses specified in Section 2.18, and stating whether its use included
the interoperation of multiple independent implementations.

 

When the time comes, you need only send an e-mail to the XSPA TC list
stating:

 

 “Your_membership_sponsor”
is successfully using or implementing the “Cross-Enterprise Security and
Privacy Authorization (XSPA) Profile of WS-Trust for Healthcare”
specification in accordance with the conformance clauses therein.  “Your_membership_sponsor” (does
/does not) include the interoperation of multiple independent implementations.

 

Please start the process of requesting this statement – we do not need it until after the conclusion of the electronic
vote to make the current draft a Committee Specification.

 

Regards,

David

David Staggs, JD, CISSP (SAIC)

Veterans Health Administration

Chief Health Informatics Office

Standards and Interoperability

Office: 858 433 1473

 

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Subject: [xspa] Groups - Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization
(XSPA) Profile of WS-Trust for Healthcare (xspa-ws-trust-profile-cd-05.doc)
uploaded

 

All,

 

This revision incorporates comments identified during public review
phase. 

Please review prior to our TC call on July 23, 2010.

 

 -- Duane DeCouteau

 

The document revision named Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy

Authorization (XSPA) Profile of WS-Trust for Healthcare

(xspa-ws-trust-profile-cd-05.doc) has been submitted by Duane DeCouteau
to

the OASIS Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization (XSPA) TC

document repository.  This
document is revision #4 of

xspa-ws-trust-profile-cd-01.doc.

 

Document Description:

This document describes how WS-Trust is leveraged by cross-enterprise

security and privacy authorization (XSPA) to satisfy requirements

pertaining to information-centric security within the healthcare
community.

 

View Document Details:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=38743

 

Download Document:  

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/38743/xspa-ws-trust-profile-cd-05.doc

 

Revision:

This document is revision #4 of xspa-ws-trust-profile-cd-01.doc.  The

document details page referenced above will show the complete revision

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