WSFED TC Meeting minutes for September 16, 2008

[Mike Kaiser <mkaiser@us.ibm.com>]

WSFED TC Meeting minutes for September
16, 2008 
        We
are grateful to Nortel for sponsoring this call.

Summary of new Action Items:

        ACTION:
Marc Goodner to write a draft response for PR0002 
         
              and circulate.
 (See Agenda item #4)
                
       9/16
- This action item is still open.

        ACTION:
Tony Nadalin to investigate the old and new 
         
              XML Signature
Syntax and Processing specs and 
         
              old/new
Canonicalization specs to determine
         
              if a revision
of the existing references or
         
              if new
references are appropriate in order to
         
              maintain
backwards compatibility. (See Agenda
         
              item #4
- PR0003.) 


1. Call to order
         
      - Verify Minute
Taker   
        
               Mike
Kaiser to take minutes.
   
          
       - Roll
Call 
        
         
      -
Status Change (as of end of meeting):
        
               -
Gained Voting Status
        
               
       None

         
              -
Lost Voting Status

         
               
      Tony
Gullotta;SOA s/w
         
               
      David Staggs;Veterans Health Admin
         
               
      
                    
    
         
      -
Attendance
       

         
               
      Doug Davis;IBM   
         
               
      Mike Kaiser;IBM   
         
               
      Michael McIntosh;IBM   
         
               
      Anthony Nadalin;IBM  
         
               
      Greg Carpenter;Microsoft Corporation  

         
               
      Marc Goodner;Microsoft Corporation  

         
               
      Chris Kaler;Microsoft Corporation   
         
               
      Don Schmidt;Microsoft Corporation   
         
               
      Lloyd Burch;Novell*   
         
               
      Steve Carter;Novell*   
         
               
      Doug Earl;Novell*   
         
               
      Rich Levinson;Oracle Corporation   
         
               
      Don Adams;TIBCO Software Inc. 
         
               
      Kent Spaulding;Tripod Technology Group

  
2. Reading/Approving minutes from September 02, 2008 [1]
        
       -
Approved unanimously. 

3. TC Logistics 
        
       - Reminder:
  
         
       
      The
TC meets every two weeks. 
 
                
       The next scheduled meeting is now September
30th, 2008.
                   
4. Issues list [2] 
        
       - Actions

         
              ACTION:
From 9/02 WSFED Meeting 
                
               Marc
to write a draft response for PR0002 and
         
               
      circulate.
 (See Agenda item #4)
                
               9/16
- This action item is still open.

        
       - Issues
               
  
        
               i015
- Non-standardized Normative References 
         
               
      http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsfed/issues/Issues.xml#i015
     
            
         
               
      Deferred
discussion until next meeting after we have
         
               
      fully resolved the PR0001 and PR0003 issues.
        
       
         
              PR0001:
Revise federation metadata document structure to eliminate 
         
               
              ambiguities
and improve interoperability[3]
         
               
              
         
               
      Spec
revisions have yet to be made. Marc has been busy
         
               
      over the last few weeks and unable to update.
 There
         
               
      should be review version out by the next meeting.
         
               
      

         
              PR0002:
Federation metadata, DNS SRV, and RFC 2782 [4]

         
               
      Per
Action Item taken from the September 02 meeting,
         
               
      Marc Goodner was to circulate a draft response
to the
         
               
      workgroup for this one.  Marc has been
unable to do this
         
               
      prior to today's meeting due to other work
obligations.
         
               
      This should be circulated prior to the next
scheduled 
         
               
      meeting (September 30th, 2008).    
       
   

                
                NEW
ISSUES: 
         
              PR0003:
Should WS-Federation references to XML DSig be 
         
               
              updatedto
       Edition
2? [5]
         
              
         
               
      Received
as a public comment:
         
               
      WS-Fed references the original DSig spec.
The XML 
         
               
      Signature Syntax and Processing spec has moved
to 
         
               
      Edition 2. It also referenced the original

         
               
      Canonicalization spec, and there's an update
for 
         
               
      that one too.
                
       
         
              
         
               
      Two schools of thought were proposed. A) revise

         
               
      current references        
to point to the updated 
         
               
      specifications, or B) leave old references
as is, 
         
               
      and add new references to allow for potential
URL, 
         
               
      namespace or other backward compatibility
problem 
         
               
      resolution. 
                
                
       
         
               
      ACTION: 
         
               
      Tony Nadalin took the to-do to investigate
whether 
         
               
      or not there were any backward compatibility
problems 
         
               
      such as namespace and URL changes) and report
back 
         
               
      with a recommendation for A or B at the next
WSFED TC 
         
               
      meeting (September 30, 2008)
         
               
               
 
                
       
         
      We have three public review comments. We need
to post a response 
         
      for each of these three issues, should we
choose to go forward 
         
      with the document.

                One
other open issue i0015 which is the long standing normative 
         
      reference issue.  We will defer this
one for the moment and 
         
      address it at the next meeting, after Tony
comes back with a 
         
      recommendation for PR0003.
                
         
      Based on the scope of the three issues, any
changes to the review 
         
      spec are expected to be minimal.  Therefore,
a shorter (less than 
         
      60 days) review after the changes are cut
in should be appropriate. 
                

5. Other business 
         
      None.        

        
6. Roll Call Additions 
                No
additions. 

7. Adjournment 
        
       Meeting
adjourned.   


[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsfed/email/archives/200809/msg00002.html
[2] http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsfed/issues/Issues.xml
[3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsfed/200808/msg00001.html
[4] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsfed-comment/200807/msg00000.html
[5] http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsfed/email/archives/200809/msg00004.html