Re: [provision] Charter...

[Gavenraj Sodhi <gsodhi1@home.com>]

I agree with Jeff's comments below and second the motion.  

-Gavenraj

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Bohren" <jbohren@opennetwork.com>
To: <provision@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:22 AM
Subject: [provision] Charter...


> I the last meeting I proposed that we vote on the charter in the meeting
> on jan 7th. From the discussions so far I see no reason the charter last
> propsed by Darran can not meet our needs. I would like to have this
> added to the agenda for the meeting. If we can not reach quorum on the
> 7th, then we should schedule an e-mail vote on this following the
> meeting.
> 
> The last draft I saw of this was:
> 
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> 
> The purpose of the OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee
> (PSTC) is to define an XML-based framework for exchanging user, resource
> 
> and service provisioning information. This framework is commonly
> referred to as the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML).
> 
> The Technical Committee will develop an end-to-end, open specification
> addressing the required semantics to exchange requests between
> cooperating provisioning services. A provisioning service is defined as
> any infrastructure component capable of consuming well formed SPML
> request.
> 
> The finished specification is expected to include (but is not limited
> to) core XML schemas for the following:
> 
> *       Query and exchange of available resources to provision to
> *       Query and exchange of available resource attributes
> *       Query and exchange of available resource identities
> *       Query and exchange of resource hierarchies
> *       Request and response for specific provisioning requests
> 
> The following are also initial assumptions relating to the scope and
> nature of the SPML framework:
> 
> *       SPML assumes a pre-existing trust model between the SPML
> requestor and the SPML  compliant service
> *       Encryption and message integrity should be available at the
> session level (via      SSL/TSL) and at the individual element level
> though XML-Encryption and XML-  Signatures
> 
> The SPML specification will be developed with consideration of the
> following existing specifications (which are of public knowledge,
> accessible, and freely distributed).
> 
> *       Active Digital Profile (ADPr)
> *       eXtensible Resource Provisioning Management (XRPM)
> *       Information Technology Markup Language (ITML)
> 
> The PSTC will produce a set of one or more Committee Specifications that
> 
> will cover the following (all of which are to be examined with respect
> to security considerations):
> 
> *       Use cases and requirements
> *       Information model
> *       Protocol(s)
> *       Bindings
> *       Conformance
> 
> The goal of the committee (subject to revision) is to submit a
> Specification to the OASIS membership for its approval by September of
> 2002.
> 
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> 
> 
> --
> Jeff Bohren
> Product Architect
> OpenNetwork Techologies
> jbohren@opennetwork.com
> (727) 561-9500x219
> 
> 
> 
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