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Subject: SPML spec for consideration as an OASIS Standard
OASIS members: The OASIS Provisioning Services TC (PSTC) has submitted the Service Provisioning Markup Language v1.0, which is an approved Committee Draft, for review and consideration for approval by OASIS members to become an OASIS Standard. The TC's submission is attached below. In accordance with the OASIS Technical Process, the specification has already gone through a 30 day public review period. OASIS members now have at least 15 days to familiarize themselves with the submission. By the 16th of October I will send out a Call For Vote to the voting representative of each OASIS member organization, who will have until the end of the month to cast their ballots on whether this Committee Draft should be approved as an OASIS Standard. OASIS members should give their input on this question to the voting reps of their respective organizations. The normative TC Process for approval of Committee Drafts as OASIS Standards is found at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#standard -Karl ================================================================= Karl F. Best Vice President, OASIS office +1 978.667.5115 x206 mobile +1 978.761.1648 karl.best@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org (see also http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/3506/specOutline.html) 1. A formal specification that is a valid member of its type, together with appropriate documentation for the specification, both of which must be written using approved OASIS templates: This specification consists of three documents described and available as follows. cs-pstc-spml-core-1.0.pdf Core specification document; contains both normative and non-normative description of the 1.0 specification http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/2395/cs-pstc-spml-core-1.0.pdf cs-pstc-spml-bindings-1.0.pdf Bindings document; contains normative description of SOAP/HTTP & file based transport bindings http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/2394/cs-pstc-spml-bindings-1.0.pdf cs-pstc-spml-schema-1.0.xsd XML Schema; contains the definition of message and protocol formats for SPML V1.0 http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/2396/cs-pstc-spml-schema-1.0.xsd 2. A clear English-language summary of the specification: In late 2001, the OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee (PSTC) was formed to define an XML-based framework for exchanging user, resource and service provisioning information. The resulting specification defines the concepts, operations, deployment and XML schema, for an XML based request and response protocol for provisioning. 3. A statement regarding the relationship of this specification to similar work of other OASIS TCs or other standards developing organizations: In the generation of the SPML V1.0 specification, the PS-TC has worked diligently to where appropriate reuse, build upon and inter-operate with, other recognized open industry standards. The following very briefly outlines those relevant to other OASIS TC efforts. DSML: SPML V1.0 builds upon the work of the Directory Services TC. SPML re-uses some of the concepts and schema elements of the DSML v2.0 specification. In outline it builds upon its basic name/value attribute representation model, as part of the SPML provisioning schema. SAML: SPML V1.0 supports a model in which senders and receivers of SPML protocol messages agree upon the context of a predefined unique identifier for the provisioning of data. One of the identifier types that SPML supports is a SAML assertion. In summary a SAML assertion may be the unique identifier used to qualify a subject, against which, a specific request is targeted. 4. Certification by at least three OASIS member organizations that they are successfully using the specification consistently with the OASIS IPR Policy: The following member organizations have certified their use of the SPML V1.0 specification in accordance with the OASIS IPR policy. Waveset Technologies http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/provision/200306/msg00009.html Business Layers http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/provision/200306/msg00011.html OpenNetwork Technologies http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/provision/200306/msg00012.html Computer Associates http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/provision/200308/msg00008.html BMC http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/provision/200308/msg00014.html 5. An account of each of the comments/issues raised during the public review period, along with its resolution: The public review was announced at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200306/msg00002.html and was held from 5 June to 5 July, 2003. During the initial OASIS wide review period, we received no comments from TC members or from OASIS members outside the PS-TC. Throughout the formal specification process, the TC has maintained an issues, this is current, and available at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/3183/pstc-issues-list-05.doc 6. An account of and results of the voting to approve the approve the specification as a Committee Draft: On 6/1/03 the TC voted to adopt the then top level draft specification to Committee Specification status. This vote is documented at http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/provision/download.php/2429/pstc-minute-06022003.htm As part of this process, on 5/19/2003 the TC voted to table the then standing issues, as documented, for consideration in a 1.1 version of the specification process, this is documented at http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/provision/download.php/2127/pstc-minute-05192003.htm 7. An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any earlier attempts to standardize substantially the same specification, together with the originating TC's response to each comment: The SPML specification has not been previously submitted to the OASIS membership. 8. A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the originating TC: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/provision-comment 9. A statement from the chair of the TC certifying that all members of the TC have been provided with a copy of the OASIS IPR Policy: "I, Darran Rolls, representative of Waveset Technologies and chair of the PS-TC can certify that each contributing member has been clearly provided with a link to the OASIS IPR Policy web page at and to the best of my knowledge none has or intends to submit claims against this specification." 10. Optionally, a pointer to any minority reports submitted by one or more TC members who did not vote in favor of approving the Committee Draft, or certification by the chair that no minority reports exist. During the closing stages of the committee specification process, several issues where raised by contributing members as documented in the "Prior Votes & Comments" section of http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/3506/specOutline.html. Those members that voted against the adoption of Committee Specification status filed no formal minority report as a result of the vote as concluded. All issues raised thus far have been formally documented in the Issues List document referenced above, for consideration in the 1.1 or 2.0 revision process. - submitted by Darran Rolls, chair of the PS TC, Darran.Rolls@waveset.com
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