Minutes of July 23, 2010 XSPA Conference Call

Minutes, XSPA
Conference Call

Friday, July 23, 2010, 1:00pm ET

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1. Roll Call & Agenda Review

Voting members:

  John Moehrke, GE
Healthcare

  Michael Dufel,
Jericho Systems Corporation

  Anil Saldhana, Red Hat

  John (Mike) Davis, Veterans Health
Administration

  Duane DeCouteau,
Veterans Health Administration (Ascenda)

  David Staggs,
Veterans Health Administration (SAIC)

 

Guests:

  Ed Coyne, Veterans Health Administration
(SAIC)

 

2. Minutes of July 9, 2010 were approved unanimously.

 

3.
General announcements

An
announcement from Dee Schur on the OASIS IDtrust
Member Section Steering Committee Nominations was discussed.

 

4.  IHE review of the XUA++ supplement

John Moehrke provided a summary of the XUA++ supplement discussed
at the IHE ITI face to face July 12-15. 
John reported that the XSPA Profile of SAML was included as a normative
standard and the XSPA Profile of XACML was included as an informative standard
in the supplement.

 

The
concept of a SAML triplet, similar to the HL7 CE data type, was discussed.  John reported SAML does not have a
standard way to represent the triplet but including the data type as an option makes
sense.  Mike Davis suggested the
triplet could be used as an alternative to the “out of band”
approach of agreeing on code systems beforehand.  John suggested working with the SAML TC
and not immediately using the HL7 CE data type.

 

David
asked about the possibility of IHE demonstrating the XSPA Profiles at HIMSS.  John explained the process would start
at a HIMSS connectathon by IHE members and intended
for release as a product. Only then could it be demonstrated at HIMSS in the showcase.
 

 

5.
ITU-T presentation

David
Staggs provided a report on an XSPA presentation made to the ITU-T Q10 on July
30. ITU members were very receptive to the presentation.

 

6.
Review of updates made to the XSPA Profile of WS-Trust 

Duane
walked through the profile to gather any additional updates from the TC. 

Michael Dufel suggested that a note be added to explain
the difference between attributes and claims.  Michael Dufel also asked that the flow
diagram be labeled as not part of the normative text.  Mike will provide the language to Duane
for inclusion.  The document will be
presented to the TC at the next meeting for a vote to committee specification,
if appropriate.

 

7.
Creation of a test platform for XSPA

David
reported on the continued talks with OASIS on creating a test platform for the
validation of XSPA implementations through the exchange of messages to and from
an OASIS XSPA resource.  

 

8. General
discussion

 

Meeting adjourned.

 

Regards,

David

David Staggs, JD, CISSP
(SAIC)

Veterans Health Administration

Chief Health Informatics Office

Standards and Interoperability

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