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Subject: Re: History of SAML Metadata
Thanks to a tip from Robin Cover (and earlier from Peter Schober), I found links (on web.archive.org) to all but one of the contributed documents. These links were added to [5]. Btw, thanks to Peter Davis, Jeff Hodges, and Scott Cantor, each of whom provided historical details and artifacts. Tom On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Tom Scavo <trscavo@gmail.com> wrote: > To put some closure on this, the original set of documents that > Liberty contributed to OASIS [4] is lost AFAIK. After November 2003, > ID-FF 1.2 continued to be developed (which is not surprising given > that numerous SSTC members came from the Liberty Project). For the > record, a complete list of the final ID-FF 1.2 archived documents is > documented in wikipedia. [5] > > Unfortunately, a number of important historical documents are lost. In > particular, Version 1.0-06 of the Liberty Metadata specification, [6] > which had significant influence on an early SSTC work stream that took > place between April and July 2003, is lost. For details, see the > History of SAML Metadata in wikipedia. [7] > > The most intriguing discovery is a very early draft specification [8] > dated one week after the SAML V1.0 Standard was published in November > 2002. The metadata syntax used in that document is completely > different from the Liberty metadata syntax. The genesis of that early > metadata schema [9] appears to have been the result of a conversation > between Prateek Mishra and Jeff Hodges, but other than that, its > origins are unknown. > > Tom > > [4] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/security-services/200311/msg00060.html > [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Alliance#Liberty_ID-FF_1.2_Archive > [6] P. Davis (Editor). Liberty Metadata Description and Discovery > Specification. Draft Version 1.0-06, 13 April 2003. > [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML_Metadata#History_of_SAML_Metadata > [8] P. Mishra (editor). Metadata for SAML 1.0 Web Browser Profiles. > Working Draft 00, 12 November 2002. Document ID > draft-sstc-saml-meta-data-00. > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/draft-sstc-saml-meta-data-00.pdf > (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7vociYknAbCNEZIaDVwaWhXLUU/view?usp=sharing) > [9] https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/draft-sstc-schema-meta-data-01.xsd > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Tom Scavo <trscavo@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am researching the History of SAML Metadata. [1] >> >> Jeff Hodges was nice enough to provide a pointer to this announcement >> regarding the Liberty ID-FF 1.2 contribution to OASIS: >> >> https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/security-services/200311/msg00060.html >> >> Unfortunately, the links to the Liberty metadata documents in that >> announcement are broken. Jeff provided an alternative link to the spec >> [2] but I haven't been able to find a copy of the XSD file. >> >> Since [3] is broken, does anyone know where I may find that resource? >> >> Thanks so much for any help you can give! >> >> Tom Scavo >> (former SSTC member) >> >> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Trscavo/SAML_Metadata >> [2] http://www.projectliberty.org/liberty/content/download/2024/13989/file/liberty-metadata-v1.0.pdf >> [3] http://www.projectliberty.org/specs/liberty-metadata-v1.0.xsd
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