RE: Submission to RSA Conference?

[Gavenraj Sodhi <GSodhi@access360.com>]

We are also submitting a panel proposal to RSA based on how the XRPM
(eXtensible Resource Provisioning Management)-standard positions with
security, web services and registries.  We would like to includes
discussion from fellow SAML members as well as individuals involved with
ebXML, UDDI and so forth.  I have proposed the following topic, which
has been agreed upon, to submit to RSA to present with Krishna of Cisco
among others on a panel discussion.  The topic as follows:  

"Provisioning Overlays promise to unify registration and authentication
of web services by centralizing management of dissimilar service
registries and providing an abstracted view of service attributes.  By
leveraging emerging standards (e.g.,  ebXML, PKI, SAML, UDDI, XRPM),
they provide a proving ground for the development/evolution of these
standards as well as defining and discovering new requirements for same.
This presentation examines provisioning overlays including their use of
role-based access control and standard security technologies (Digital
Signature/Encryption)."

We would like to invite a few others, specifically from this SAML
working group, to contribute on the topic as panel members if this topic
is selected.  

Regards,


Gavenraj Sodhi
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mishra, Prateek [mailto:pmishra@netegrity.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 2:16 PM
To: 'Krishna Sankar'; Jeremy Epstein; Jahan Moreh; ROUAULT,JASON
(HP-FtCollins,ex1); Mishra, Prateek; oasis sstc; 'pbaker@verisign.com'
Subject: RE: Submission to RSA Conference?


Folks,

In conversation with Carlisle Adams, we came up with the following
suggestions:

(1) Standards Track Presentation (not a panel)
Intro to SAML standard effort, use-cases, architecture, standards
status.

(2) Developers Track Presentation (not a panel)
How developers can use SAML in their programs, develop security
services, available SAML APIs.

(3) XML Security standards presentation/panel
(proposed by Philip H-B. so lets ask him to drive this one).

One reason to avoid a panel is that frankly it will take 30-40 minutes
of a good presentation to get the main points across. The main idea of a
panel is to expose different viewpoints, that does not seem helpful for
(1) and (2).

Following Jeremy's suggestion, the main coordination point is not to
have too many presentations on the same topic. Therefore, I am
requesting folks to coordinate by NOT sending in many submissions on
these topics.

It appears that submissions on (1) and (2) have already been made to
RSA? IF not, we should make sure that there are some submissions in by
July 15.

Jahan: I believe you have made a submission on the standards track for
SAML. Could you please confirm that?

Krishna, Jason: Have you guys submitted on the dev track?

In that case, I would propose we make no further submissions on these
topics (this has nothing to do with various corporate submissions you
may be making). 

I would also request the submitters for (1) and (2) to review their
slides (several people would be happy to help with the contents) with
the group AND highlight all of the companies participating in SAML at
OASIS.


- prateek


>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Krishna Sankar [mailto:ksankar@cisco.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 1:53 PM
>>To: Jeremy Epstein; Jahan Moreh; ROUAULT,JASON (HP-FtCollins,ex1); 
>>Mishra, Prateek; oasis sstc
>>Subject: RE: Submission to RSA Conference?
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>	Good point. My suggestion is to have one standards
>>track, one developers
>>track and of course mention SAML in product talks as needed 
>>by the various
>>vendors.
>>
>>Would this be a better plan of action ? Or do we want only
>>one standards
>>track or just one developers track ?
>>
>>cheers
>>
>>  |-----Original Message-----
>>  |From: Jeremy Epstein [mailto:jepstein@webmethods.com]
>>  |Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 1:04 PM
>>  |To: Jahan Moreh; Krishna Sankar; ROUAULT,JASON (HP-FtCollins,ex1);
>>  |Mishra, Prateek; oasis sstc
>>  |Subject: RE: Submission to RSA Conference?
>>  |
>>  |
>>  |Not trying to tell anyone what to do, but.... do you think
>>you'd stand a
>>  |better chance of getting SAML accepted on the agenda if 
>>there were one or
>>  |more *joint* proposals, instead of a bunch of individual 
>>ones?  Will the
>>  |conference team say "we can't pick which one, so let's 
>>reject them all"?
>>  |Based on last year, my gut feeling is that they're not 
>>going to accept a
>>  |whole bunch of SAML presentations... so a consortium 
>>approach might be a
>>  |reasonable compromise.
>>  |
>>  |Just a thought...
>>  |--Jeremy
>>  |
>>  |
>>