RE: [security-services] Editorial topics that need discussion

["Krishna Sankar" <ksankar@cisco.com>]

May I suggest a SAML Primer as a separate document ?
-k.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jahan Moreh [mailto:jmoreh@sigaba.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:16 AM
> To: Eve L. Maler; oasis sstc (E-mail)
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> Eve -
> > - Ease-of-use content.  I've suggested that we desperately 
> need examples
> > in the core spec, and others have suggested that we produce 
> a tutorial.
> >   What do people think is the best way to deliver this sort 
> of stuff: an
> > examples appendix, examples interspersed among the normative bits, a
> > separate tutorial with examples, all of the above, ...?  Are there
> > materials out there that we could use as a basis?
> I personally like examples that are interspersed with among 
> normative bits.
> If all the examples are coherently related to each other, 
> then we can have
> an appendix that pulls together all the examples into some 
> number (1-5) of
> complete examples (i.e., request/response, authN, authZ, 
> attributes, etc.).
> 
> Jahan
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eve L. Maler [mailto:eve.maler@sun.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:32 AM
> > To: oasis sstc (E-mail)
> > Subject: [security-services] Editorial topics that need discussion
> >
> >
> > The editorial folks have been bouncing around a few ideas, 
> and I wanted
> > to bring them to the whole TC for discussion.  (Should 
> these be added
> > explicitly to the work items document?  That document is 
> feeling almost
> > like an issues list now...)  Perhaps we could spend a few minutes on
> > each at the next meeting.
> >
> > - Bindings/profiles spec reorganization.  We have talked 
> before about
> > versioning implications of individual profiles.  I think it would be
> > more elegant, versioning-wise, to put the instructional 
> material about
> > "what constitutes a profile" in the core spec, and then 
> have individual
> > specs for each profile or set of related profiles.  If 
> we're going to be
> > adding bindings, we might want to do the same thing with 
> them.  Another
> > consideration is the breakdown of Liberty specs; Jeff 
> pointed out that
> > we might want to follow that lead.  But he also pointed out another
> > consideration: speed of V2.0 vs. undertaking a huge reorg.  
> We'll need
> > to discuss the speed factor as part of our goal statement 
> discussion,
> > methinks, and that will help to guide the editorial choices.
> >
> > - Ease-of-use content.  I've suggested that we desperately 
> need examples
> > in the core spec, and others have suggested that we produce 
> a tutorial.
> >   What do people think is the best way to deliver this sort 
> of stuff: an
> > examples appendix, examples interspersed among the normative bits, a
> > separate tutorial with examples, all of the above, ...?  Are there
> > materials out there that we could use as a basis?
> >
> > 	Eve
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