Re: [security-services] OASIS SSTC letter to authors of WS-Security(draft)

["Eve L. Maler" <eve.maler@sun.com>]

Just to be clear...  I think our intent was to approve actual wording at 
the next meeting.  So this isn't actualy going to be delivered anywhere 
right now.  Correct?

	Eve

Mishra, Prateek wrote:
> Folks,
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>  
> 
> this is the proposed text of the message we plan to send to WS-Security 
> authors.
> I am circulating it to the list as (1) we voted on the contents on the 
> message, not
> its exact form, so here is a last chance to object, (2) neither jeff nor 
> joe was on the
> call, so here is a chance for them to object.
> 
>  
> 
> Bob M. and Prateek
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> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> In April 2002, Microsoft and IBM jointly published a document entitled
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> "Security in a Web Services World: A Proposed Architecture and
> 
> Roadmap" (http://www.verisign.com/wss/architectureRoadmap.pdf), and
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> Microsoft, IBM, and VeriSign published a companion specification, "Web
> 
> Services Security (WS-Security) Version 1.0"
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> (http://www.verisign.com/wss/wss.pdf). The OASIS Security Services
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> Technical Committee, which has produced the Security Assertion Markup
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> Language (SAML) specification, considers these documents to be
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> important contributions to web services security. The SSTC views the
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> WS-Security technical specification as complementary to SAML, and
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> intends to use WS-Security in specifying the use of SAML for adding
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> security features to SOAP messages.
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> The SSTC urges the authors of the WS-Security specification to submit
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> the specification to an open standards body for further development,
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> standardization, and building of industry consensus. In particular,
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> intellectual property rights issues regarding this specification and
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> its technologies should be addressed to enable broad use of this work.
> 


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