[security-services] Committee Last Call on SAML 1.0 Specification Set(20-Feb-2002)

[Jeff Hodges <Jeff.Hodges@sun.com>]

The purpose of this message is to initiate the Security Services Technical
Committee Last Call on the SAML 1.0 Specification Set (20-Feb-2002).


WHAT SPECIFICATION SET?

The specification set in last call is the SAML 1.0 Specification Set
(20-Feb-2002):

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/draft-sstc-core-27.pdf
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/draft-sstc-schema-assertion-27.xsd
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/draft-sstc-schema-protocol-27.xsd
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/draft-sstc-bindings-model-11.pdf
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/draft-sstc-sec-consider-04.pdf
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/draft-sstc-conform-spec-11.pdf
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/draft-sstc-glossary-02.pdf

The relevant Issues List docs are:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/draft-sstc-saml-issues-08.pdf
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/docs/draft-sstc-saml-issues-status-03.pdf


WHAT IS A COMMITTEE LAST CALL FOR?

The purpose of the committee last call is to ensure that the committee has
reached consensus on the documents comprising the specification set, believes
that all the known outstanding issues have been addressed, and is ready to vote
on declaring the documents as "Committee Specifications" in preparation for
submission to OASIS-wide review.

During the last call, any comments on the documents are collected and discussed
on the mailing lists.


HOW LONG DOES IT LAST?

The last call starts today 21-Feb-2002 and will last approximately two weeks.
It will end on Thursday, 7-Mar-2002, the "Last Call cut-off date".


WHAT'S THE LAST CALL PROCESS AND NEXT STEPS?

The Committee Last Call process we're following is described here..

  SSTC "Committee Last Call" process
  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/security-services/200202/msg00176.html


WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?

You should read the documents, making sure that (1) there are no normative
problems or deficiencies or outstanding issues that need to be resolved; and
(2) that there are no typos, formatting problems, grammatical errors, etc.

Send notice of any issues you find, normative or otherwise, to the appropriate
list (see below). 


WHERE DO I SEND MY COMMENTS?


OASIS SSTC members should send their comments to the..

  security-services@lists.oasis-open.org

..mailing list. List archives are available here..

  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/security-services/

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The general public ("reviewers at-large") should send comments to..

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Read, enjoy, and send your comments in!

regards,
Jeff Hodges and Joe Pato