SNIA standards document would like to reference KMIP draft

[Larry.Hofer@Emulex.Com]

Hello,

   The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has an activity within its Security Technical Work Group (TWG) that actively tracks standards and specifications that are potentially relevant to storage security. Approximately three times a year, the Security TWG produces an internal report for the SNIA membership, which provides a list of the identified documents as well as the state of drafts under development. In the case of drafts, the Security TWG is careful to not disclose privileged information about activities that have not been disclosed to the public (e.g., early drafts being developed by the Trusted Computing Group). KMIP is clearly an activity of interest, so guidance is being requested from the KMIP TC on the level of detail that can/should be disclosed in the SNIA internal report. Clearly, any public information will be leveraged, but if the KMIP TC permits additional info to be included it may be possible to identify the latest drafts as well as identifying other relevant documents (like compliance documents).

   As the SNIA Security TWG liaison, I was asked to query the KMIP TC, on what version of KMIP draft specification is the best to reference.  Basicly I would like to know if there is any information that is not public, that the OASIS TC would want/allow the SNIA Security TWG to use to track OASIS activities.  I'm assuming right now that there will be regular updates made publicly available to the KMIP draft and other deliverable docs. If that is the case, is this link the best location for an outside group, like SNIA, to track OASIS KMIP draft activities? 

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=kmip

   If one of the chairs or staff could respond, that would be great. 

Larry H

KMIP Liaison to the SNIA Security TWG