Public Review of SAML 1.1 Committee Specification

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

On May 27, 2003 the OASIS Security Services TC (SSTC) voted to advance 
the SAML 1.1 specification drafts to Commmittee Specification status, 
and to begin a public review of the specification.

Following OASIS guidelines the review period must extend to at least 30 
days; for this specification set this period begins May 28, 2003 and 
closes June 30, 2003. Members of OASIS and the general public are 
encouraged to review the candidate specification and send their comments 
to one of the following SSTC mailing lists.

OASIS SSTC members should send their comments to the mail list at 
security-services@lists.oasis-open.org

NOTE: Only subscribers may post to the security-services list. However, 
any OASIS member may subscribe to the security-services list. To 
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The general public ("reviewers at-large") should send comments to 
security-services-comment@lists.oasis-open.org

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MUST FIRST SUBSCRIBE. Go to http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl to 
subscribe to this list.

Archives of both the lists are available at:

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

The SAML 1.1 specification set is available at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/2287/sstc-saml-schema-protocol-1.1-cs.xsd
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/2286/sstc-saml-schema-assertion-1.1-cs.xsd
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/2285/sstc-saml-sec-consider-1.1-cs-01.pdf
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/2284/sstc-saml-glossary-1.1-cs-01.pdf
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/2283/sstc-saml-core-1.1-cs-01.pdf
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/2282/sstc-saml-conform-1.1-cs-01.pdf
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/2281/sstc-saml-bindings-1.1-cs-01.pdf

The entire SAML 1.1 specification set may also be downloaded as a single 
ZIP archive:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/2289/sstc-saml-1.1-cs-01.zip

A draft describing the differences between SAML 1.0 and SAML 1.1 is
available at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/2247/sstc-saml-diff-1.1-draft-01.doc

Note that this document is NOT part of the SAML 1.1 specification set.

The TC will record the comments received as well as the resolution of 
those comments. The TC may conduct any number of additional review 
cycles (i.e. collecting comments, making edits to the specification, 
sending out a revised version for review again, etc.) before deciding 
that the review is complete. After the conclusion of the review and 
final changes to the document, the TC must re-approve the work as a 
Committee Specification before submitting it to OASIS for consideration 
as an OASIS Standard.

Submitted by the SSTC co-chairs, Prateek Mishra and Rob Philpott, May 
28, 2003




-Karl

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Karl F. Best
Vice President, OASIS
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