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Subject: [tc-announce] XACML spec for consideration as OASIS Standard
OASIS members: The OASIS XACML TC has submitted the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) Committee Specification 1.0, which is an approved Committee Specification, for review and consideration for approval by OASIS members to become an OASIS Standard. The TC's submission is attached below. In accordance with Section 2 of the OASIS Technical Process, the specification has already gone through a 30 day public review period. OASIS members now have 15 days to familiarize themselves with the submission. On the 16th of January I will send out a Call For Vote to the voting representatives of each OASIS member organization, who will have until the end of the month to cast their ballots on whether this Committee Specification should be approved as an OASIS Standard. OASIS members should give their input on this question to the voting reps of their respective organizations. Members should note that IPR claims related to this specification have been made; please see the TC's page at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/ The normative TC Process for approval of Committee Specifications as OASIS Standards is found at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.shtml#approval_standard -Karl ================================================================= Karl F. Best Vice President, OASIS +1 978.667.5115 x206 karl.best@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org As a result of a unanimous vote of the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language Technical Committee conducted on Thursday 12 December 2002, the co-chairs hereby submit the XACML 1.0 Committee Specification for consideration as an OASIS Standard. In accordance with the process stipulated in Section 2 of the OASIS Technical Committee Process, the TC has published: (a) A formal specification that is a valid member of its type, (b) Appropriate documentation for the specification, and (c) A clear English-language summary of the specification. This material, in the currently-recommended OASIS format, is available on the TC web site at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/#documents The specification is composed of the following pieces: * Committee Specification 1.0 (normative) o Committee Specification 1.0 (Revision 1), 12 December 2002 + Adobe PDF format (cs-xacml-specification-01.pdf) + Microsoft Word format (cs-xacml-specification-01.doc) o Schema Definitions + Policy Schema (cs-xacml-schema-policy-01.xsd) + Context Schema (cs-xacml-schema-context-01.xsd) * Other Documents (non-normative) o Conformance Tests for XACML 1.0 (12 December 2002) + HTML file (ConformanceTests.html) + Zip file (ConformanceTests.zip) o Issues List + PDF format (draft-xacml-issues-10.pdf) (d) Certifications of Use The chairs are pleased to report that three OASIS organizational members have provided attestations with respect to successfully using XACML 1.0, as required by the OASIS TC Process. These attestations may be found at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200212/msg00087.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200212/msg00089.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200212/msg00105.html In addition, the chairs are also pleased to report that there are at least three known implementations of the XACML 1.0 Committee Specification that pass the full suite of tests created for conformance determination, as well as several other implementations of various portions of the specification. The members of the TC are therefore confident that the Committee Specification is fully implementable. (e) Public comments and resolutions. The following message contains a detailed description of all public comments received on this specification during the public review period conducted November 8, 2002 through December 8, 2002, along with the TC resolution of each comment: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml-comment/200212/msg00059.html (f) History of previous OASIS standardization attempts. There have been no past attempts to submit XACML for OASIS standardization. (g) Publicly visible comments archive. The XACML TC comment archive can be found at: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml-comment/ (h) OASIS IPR policy statement. The chairs certify that all members of the TC have been provided with a copy of the OASIS IPR policy. submitted by Carlisle Adams and Hal Lockhart Co-Chairs, OASIS XACML TC
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