Standard Schema.

["Gary.P.Cole" <Gary.P.Cole@Sun.COM>]

Hi, guys!  It's been a while.  (I apologize for going dark on the PSTC, 
but I've had to deal with some personal issues in addition to more 
typical professional challenges.)

Related to our effort to define a standard schema, I've done a good deal 
of work to sell the idea internally here at Sun.  I convinced/persuaded 
decision-makers that Sun Identity Manager should expose a DSML Schema 
for use with SPMLv2.  Naturally, I started with the draft of the 
SIMPLEST domain model and schema that we had developed at the PSTC. 

When my colleagues began to consider the idea seriously, they began 
having things to say about the model.  In particular, they zeroed in on 
the same area the PSTC had identified as the weakest (the lower 
right-hand corner of the ERD), the entities that were originally named 
Type-Of-Account and Privilege.  These are now AccountType and 
AccountAttribute.  I'll attach the updated SIMPLEST domain model (in PDF 
format) to this email.

If we get beyond the domain model (well, first of all I'll be 
surprised), then I also have a spreadsheet that I can share.  It's not 
pretty, but it is very specific.  It describes each of the proposed 
object-classes and attributes.  Some are intended to be interoperable, 
some are known to be proprietary, and some are in-between.  I'd be very 
interested to know whether any of these attributes seem familiar to 
other members of this committee.

I plan to call in to the meeting this afternoon.  (I regret that I am 
not actually physically present at the Face-to-Face.)  From my 
point-of-view, the most important things are:  1) to catch up on what 
has happened on the Standard Schema initiative while I've been offline; 
and 2) to gauge the level of interest of committee members in developing 
a Standard Schema.

SIMPLEST-domain-model.pdf