Re: [ekmi] Public Review of SKSML v1.0

[Arshad Noor <arshad.noor@strongauth.com>]

Congratulations to the members of the TC for this milestone!  While we
are still many months away from a potential standard, we are nonetheless
closer to it than we were 18 months ago when this TC started.  Thanks to
everyone who has been patient through this process and for your valuable
contributions.

Thank you, Mary, for your help in getting us to this stage.  I'm looking
forward to the remainder of this process and getting SKSML standardized
by January 2009.  Have a great weekend everyone.

Arshad Noor
StrongAuth, Inc.

Mary McRae wrote:
> To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists:
> 
> The OASIS Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure (EKMI) TC has recently
> approved the following specification as a Committee Draft and approved the
> package for public review:
> 
> Symmetric Key Services Markup Language (SKSML) Version 1.0
> 
> The public review starts today, 24 July 2008, and ends 23 September 2008. This
> is an open invitation to comment. We strongly encourage feedback from potential
> users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of
> improving the interoperability and quality of OASIS work. Please feel free to
> distribute this announcement within your organization and to other appropriate
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> 
> More non-normative information about the specification and the technical
> committee may be found at the public home page of the TC at: 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ekmi. Comments may be
> submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment
> Facility which can be located via the button marked "Send A Comment" at the top
> of that page, or directly at: 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=ekmi.
> 
> Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that TC) are
> publicly archived and can be viewed at: 
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> OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback
> you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC
> members.
> 
> The specification document and related files are available here:
> 
> Editable Source (Authoritative):
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/ekmi/sksml/v1.0/pr01/SKSML-1.0-Specification.odt 
> 
> PDF:
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/ekmi/sksml/v1.0/pr01/SKSML-1.0-Specification.pdf 
> 
> HTML:
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/ekmi/sksml/v1.0/pr01/SKSML-1.0-Specification.html 
> 
> Schema:
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/ekmi/sksml/v1.0/pr01/schema/ 
> 
> Abstract:
> This normative specification defines the first (1.0) version of the Symmetric
> Key Services Markup Language (SKSML), an XML-based messaging protocol, by which
> applications executing on computing devices may request and receive symmetric
> key-management services from centralized key-management servers, securely, over
> networks. Applications using SKSML are expected to either implement the SKSML
> protocol, or use a software library - called the Symmetric Key Client Library
> (SKCL) - that implements this protocol. SKSML messages are transported within a
> SOAP layer, protected by a Web Services Security (WSS) header and can be used
> over standard HTTP securely.
> 
> OASIS and the EKMI TC welcome your comments.
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Mary P McRae
> Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
> email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org  
> web: www.oasis-open.org 
> 
>