[wsrp-wsia] [wss] Policy and Trust Implementer's Workshop Invitation

[Rich Thompson <richt2@us.ibm.com>]

I was asked to post this in the interest of increasing input to the 
formation of these standards.

Rich Thompson

---- Forwarded by Kelvin Lawrence/Austin/IBM on 01/31/2003 04:18 PM ----- 
"Andrew Layman" <andrewl@microsoft.com> 
01/31/2003 01:56 PM 

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"Sarah Jamieson" <sarahj@microsoft.com>


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Policy and Trust Implementer's Workshop Invitation -- Please Forward as 
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Following the WS-I Basic Profile WG meeting February 4 - 6 in Redmond, WA, 
authors of the recently-published WS-Policy, WS-Trust and 
WS-SecureConversations specifications will host a one-day meeting on 
February 7, 8am to 5pm, to discuss these and related specifications 
(WS-PolicyAssertions, WS-Policy Attachment and WS-SecurityPolicy) and 
general thoughts about the problem spaces addressed.   
This is an ad-hoc, open forum for 1) SPECIFICATION AUTHORS to share 
background information on the design of the specifications and to receive 
feedback and 2) SOFTWARE VENDORS to discuss their ideas about the 
practicality of implementing these and related Web Services 
specifications. 
  
We'd like this to be an open meeting and collect a broad range of ideas. 
If you are interested in participating in the discussions, please reply to 
this mail and we will make sure that there is space for you. 
  
The agenda is currently flexible. We will include presentations on the 
named specifications and welcome discussions of others. We anticipate a 
good discussion on these and welcome suggestions for other items to be 
included in the agenda. This should give us a good opportunity to discuss 
the appropriate factoring of the needed work in this area and the 
appropriate scope for key technical workgroups and specifications. 
  
The authors of the WS-Policy, WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversations, 
WS-PolicyAssertions, WS-Policy Attachment and WS-SecurityPolicy 
Specifications intend to submit revised versions of these specifications 
to a standards body with a commitment to grant a royalty-free license to 
their necessary patents.  We need assurance that your feedback and 
discussions are consistent with that goal.  (You will need to sign the 
following agreement as part of registration at the meeting):   
  
The specifications listed above (“Specifications”) are expected to be 
discussed as part of this workshop.  You are not required to provide any 
comments or input (“Comments”) on these Specifications, but any Comments 
you do provide may be incorporated into these Specifications.  By signing 
below, you (on behalf of yourself if you are an individual and your 
company if you are providing Comments on behalf of the company) grant to 
the authors of the Specifications (“Authors”) a non-exclusive, 
non-transferable, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free 
copyright license to copy, publish, license, modify, sublicense or 
otherwise distribute and exploit Comments you provide. Likewise, if 
incorporation of your Comments into any of these Specifications would 
cause an implementation of any of such Specifications (as modified) to 
infringe a patent or patent application that you control, you commit to 
grant a royalty-free license to it.  You warrant that (a) to the best of 
your knowledge you have rights to provide these Comments, and if you are 
providing Comments on behalf of a company, you have the rights to provide 
Comments on behalf of your company; (b) the Comments are not confidential 
to you or to another party; and (c) to the best of your knowledge use of 
the Comments would not cause an implementation of any of the 
Specifications (as modified) to infringe any third-party  patent or patent 
application known to you.  You also acknowledge that the Authors are not 
required to incorporate your Comments into any version of any of the 
Specifications. 
  
Please reply to Sarah Jamieson (sarahj@microsoft.com)