RE: [provision] Scope of SPML -- Identities and Resources

["Truitt, Edward D. (OSED)" <OSED@chevrontexaco.com>]

Darren, you hit the nail on the head!  The "value-add" here is not in
defining Yet Another Set of Schema (after all, we have the excellent work of
various NAC, OSI, IETF, DMTF, other standards groups, and vendor committees
to take advantage of in this space - besides which, I think every end-user
organization has their own schema they have lovingly cultivated and won't
want to give up), but in defining a standard means for the various
components operating in the provisioning service space to exchange the data
needed to make the transaction work.  In this regard, we are like the
designers of a highway.  We aren't determining what the cars that use it
will look like, we want to make sure that the road will allow all to use it
in a manner that is safe and efficient.  By "overloading" the types of
things that may be provisioned, we force ourselves to take a step back (up?)
and get our heads out of the weeds.


Edward D. (Ed) Truitt 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Darran Rolls [mailto:Darran.Rolls@waveset.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:00 PM
To: Truitt, Edward D. (OSED); provision@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [provision] Scope of SPML -- Identities and Resources

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This position puts SPML as the structure and framework for the
request/response flow not the prescription of the schemas that can flow over
it. This enables the desirable things re RBAC that Edward mentions but does
not sign us up for a 4 year schema design course.

I'm at Disney World Orlando right now so telling me I'm on another planet on
this would be somewhere near the truth ;-)

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