RE: [pki-ms] ideas for OASIS PKI

Hi Peter,

Can you give me an idea of an effort (implementation) or vendor that has used the three specs in concert. I have organized a SPML InterOp with Burton in San Francisco at Catalyst. Do you want to look at the scenario and see if you see any fits?

Dee Schur

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From: Alterman, Peter (NIH/CIT) [E] [mailto:altermap@mail.nih.gov]
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 4:49 PM
To: June Leung; Dee Schur; patrick.gannon@oasis-open.org; Terwilliger, Ann
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Subject: [pki-ms] ideas for OASIS PKI

All,

My apologies for not getting this out earlier. We’ve been thinking more broadly about PKI efforts for OASIS and the following make a great deal of sense to us (not The Royal We; my colleague Chris Louden and me):

1. There are references to PKI in a number of other OASIS standards, such as SAML, but they are mostly generic and rudimentary at best. Therefore, I think it would be useful for us to raise PKI awareness in other OASIS areas and ask for greater specificity in their reports and recommendations. Engaging in dialogues with these other groups is the way to go.

2. Am I correct in believing that XKMS comes under the OASIS purview? If so, I’d like to see us get a work group on building a profile or profiles analogous to SAML profiles for implementation.

3. Finally, Chris and I think that if the PKI group could host an interoperability workshop, or conference, or challenge that puts SPML, SAML, PKI, etc. together to solve real business problems, it would be a very powerful way of having many OASIS initiatives integrate and bootstrap each other, providing tons of great visibility, too.

Comments?

Thanks,

Peter

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Peter Alterman, Ph.D.

Asst. CIO, EAuthentication, NIH and

Chair, Federal PKI Policy Authority

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