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Subject: Re: [security-services] AI #0327: Draft proposal for SSTC home pagecleanup
Thanks a million for doing this, and in such a thoughtful way! Eve On Jul 1, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Tom Scavo wrote: > This is done. Comments below. Tom > > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Eve Maler <Eve.Maler@sun.com> wrote: >> I humbly submit the following to close out AI #0327. (We do still >> need one >> or more people to actually make these edits!) >> >> Background: >> >> - Mary's advice on how to distinguish the two wikis: "In case >> anyone is >> still not clear on the differences between the TC wiki and SAML >> XML.org, >> http://wiki.oasis-open.org/security is provided as an aid to TC >> collaboration and is used by TC members to discuss and document their >> work-in-progress. It is like an extension of the TC mail list, >> publicly >> viewable, but only TC members may post to it. http://saml.xml.org/wiki >> is a >> community knowledgebase, a collection of information topic pages >> that relate >> to using and understanding SAML. Anyone can create and edit pages." >> >> >> Terminology in this message: >> >> "Home page": >> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=security >> "TC wiki": http://wiki.oasis-open.org/security >> "Community wiki": http://saml.xml.org/ > > Aside: Content is input via HTML, not wiki text, so I would hesitate > calling this a wiki. > >> Recommendations for editing the three sites: >> >> The bullet items below are taken directly from the existing table of >> contents on the home page. I'm taking a "home page-primary" >> approach, >> describing edits needed based on the goal of finishing the cleanup >> of the >> home page but recognizing that the three sites need to work together. >> >> • (List of chairs and secretaries) >> >> This is automatically generated metadata. We might want to consider >> doublechecking among the membership to ensure that all of Prateek, >> Abbie, >> Rob, Anil, Jeff, Paul, and Eve are still interested in being listed >> as >> "secretaries" (which carries with it, e.g., the authorization to >> edit the >> home page and -- I think -- to rearrange categories in the doc >> repository). >> I suspect that some of these are now historical, since past chairs >> tend to >> keep this status. Here's a proposal: Anil, Paul, and Eve still >> need this >> status; the others might be happy to let it go, though there's no >> harm to >> anyone in letting them retain it. >> >> • Announcements >> >> The announcements currently on the home page, plus significant >> dates past >> (many of them captured in items lower down on the home page, which >> had >> originally been dated in blog-entry-like fashion within the >> individual >> sections but have now mostly been rewritten), are candidates to be >> added to >> a historical SAML timeline that could be added to the "History of >> SAML" page >> (http://saml.xml.org/history) on the community wiki. This is not >> high-priority, but if we're going to blow away any home page >> content soon, >> the current content should be preserved in amber somewhere so that a >> timeline of dates past can be constructed from it. > > I created this page > > http://saml.xml.org/wiki/an-historical-timeline-for-saml > > and moved the announcements there. > >> New announcements we want to make (all spec status changess, e.g.) >> should be >> added to the community wiki's "news" page (http://saml.xml.org/news) >> instead. >> >> The Announcements section on the home page should be retained but >> should >> contain one last (undated?) announcement suggesting people go to the >> (linked) TC and community wikis for all their SAML official-info >> needs. >> >> • Overview >> >> The Overview content is nice to keep here, but probably doesn't >> need a >> formal section heading, to save on boilerplate. (I'm assuming we >> can safely >> blow away the old required home page TOC structure that was imposed >> some >> years ago.) We should include links here to the Exec and (latest) >> Tech >> Overviews. No content needs to be transferred to the wiki. >> >> • Subcommittees >> >> We should remove the Subcommittees section; the subcommittee is >> inactive >> anyway. If we feel it's necessary, we can undertake a motion in >> the next TC >> meeting to decommission the subcommittee officially. >> >> • Technical Work Produced by the Committee >> >> I think it's a good idea to keep this as a formal section heading >> to get >> people's attention, but we should use it only to link to >> http://saml.xml.org/saml-specifications (for final stuff) and >> http://wiki.oasis-open.org/security (for fine-grained status of >> ongoing TC >> work). The section could be called "Committee Deliverables". It >> might be >> good to provide a single link to the latest errata-corrected SAML2 >> zip file >> here so people can quickly "grab SAML" if they happen to come to >> this page. >> >> The http://saml.xml.org/saml-specifications page should have >> something >> prominent added to it about errata. > > Done. > >> We should ensure that people find it >> much easier to grab the errata-corrected versions of SAML2 than the >> old >> ones. (There are good links on the home page for this now.) >> >> • SAML V2.0 >> >> This subsection contains a whole bunch of links to individual >> schemas, which >> are missing from the community wiki's SAML2 page. The doc >> repository is >> nearly unnavigable, which is why we bothered providing all these >> links on >> the home page in the first place. Do we want to add them to the >> community >> wiki somehow? Or is it pointless? > > I added links to all the schemas to the community site. I figured it > would be easier to delete them down the road than recreate them. > >> These are individual pieces of the real >> official SAML2. Once a disposition is decided and links copied >> over as >> necessary, this section can be blown away. >> >> There's a sub-sub-section here on "auxiliary and outreach >> information", >> which has some very important and useful stuff in it. This should be >> migrated to a new page on the community wiki that's a companion to >> the >> saml-specifications page, and prominently mentioned at the top of >> that wiki >> and linked from here. > > Some of this information was migrated to a new page on the community > site: > > http://saml.xml.org/wiki/saml-introduction > > The rest of the information was moved to the SAML wiki. > >> • Additional Profiles, Bindings, and Extensions Being >> Produced by the SSTC >> >> This subsection has already been turned into a link to the TC >> wiki. This >> will be taken care of above, so the subsection can be blown away. >> >> • Third-Party Profiles, Bindings, and Extensions >> >> We probably over-cooked the process that we invented for this >> listing. I >> think it's worth adding a page on the community wiki to list known >> third-party uses of SAML, and not wait for people to inform us >> formally that >> they'd like us to list theirs. We can even advertise the new page >> and >> invite third parties to add listings themselves! :-) The new page >> could be >> linked from the top level of the community wiki in the any one of a >> number >> of categories: Applications for SAML, Working with SAML, and/or >> even Related >> Specifications. >> >> • The SAML V1.1 page on the OASIS SAML wiki has >> information >> about this older version of SAML, including awards won during that >> era of >> its development. >> >> This appears in the home page TOC (somewhat strangely); it can be >> removed as >> it's taken care of by other edits above. >> >> • SAML V1.0 >> >> This old content should be moved somehow to the >> http://saml.xml.org/saml-specifications page on the community wiki, >> under >> the SAML 1.0 section. >> >> The links to the IRTF AAA RFCs that did successfully get migrated >> to the >> community wiki are frankly not as interesting as the old Domain >> Model and >> Use Cases/Requirements docs still linked from the home page. The >> latter >> links should definitely be preserved as it's impossible to dig them >> up >> easily from the doc repository. (Perhaps these should be added to >> the >> "History of SAML" page rather than the SAML 1.0 section of the >> specs page.) > > All the SAML V1.0 information has been migrated to the community site: > > http://saml.xml.org/saml-specifications#samlv10 > > I also reorganized the SAML wiki with respect to the SAML Standards. > >> • External Resources >> >> I think this section should get pretty much the same treatment as the >> "auxiliary and outreach" information above. It should be migrated >> to the >> public wiki as a prominent high-level page, linked from sensible >> places. > > Done. > >> And similarly to the third-party profiles and bindings info as >> noted above, >> we should solicit third-party edits and input to this material. >> >> • Mailing Lists and Comments >> >> This section should still appear on the home page. I think the >> links to the >> old inactive mailing lists would be nice to keep, but we should >> probably >> migrate them to the community wiki's historical timeline area (as >> suggested >> above). >> >> • Additional Information >> >> This mostly contains Acknowledgments. The SSTC has a long and >> distinguished >> history, and I think it's fine to leave this here, but it could >> also be >> migrated to the historical timeline area on the community wiki (as >> suggested >> above). Having the home page be short and to the point will >> hopefully >> encourage people to explore the wikis more. >> >> >> *** Finally, some general comments about the community wiki apart >> from the >> home page structure: It looks like some parts of the FAQ linked off >> the home >> page have been migrated here. Should we be migrating more of the FAQ >> formally (and editing it down on the home page site)? Should we also >> advertise the existence of the community wiki forum actively on >> saml-dev? >> >> Eve >> >> Eve Maler +1 425 947 4522 >> Principal Engineer eve.maler @ sun.com >> Business Alliances group Sun Microsystems, Inc. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that >> generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs >> in OASIS >> at: >> https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/ >> my_workgroups.php >> Eve Maler +1 425 947 4522 Principal Engineer eve.maler @ sun.com Business Alliances group Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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