RE: [provision] SPML Requirements List

[Darran Rolls <Darran.Rolls@waveset.com>]

Agreed.  I'll add this to the next draft.

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Darran Rolls                      http://www.waveset.com
Waveset Technologies Inc          drolls@waveset.com 
(512) 657 8360                    
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashish Kolli [mailto:Ashish.Kolli@oracle.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:05 PM
> To: provision@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [provision] SPML Requirements List
> 
> Hi Darran,
> 
> The requirements look good.
> 
> Requirement #3, "To provide a query model that allows a RA to discover
> those
> provisioning elements it is authorized to act upon" should be made an
> optional requirement. The absence of this feature from a PSP or PST
should
> not prevent an RA from sending provisioning requests.
> 
> Many PSPs and PSTs will not be willing to divulge the list of
provisioned
> users for security/privacy reasons.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Ashish
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darran Rolls" <Darran.Rolls@waveset.com>
> To: <provision@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:15 PM
> Subject: [provision] SPML Requirements List
> 
> 
> Folks
> 
> Through the process of defining the SPML charter, use cases and
ongoing
> work we have implicitly gathered a set of requirements.  We have not
as
> yet clearly articulated these in a single document.  On this weeks
> con-call, we concluded that we probably need to do this now.  I would
> like to start this effort by offering the following (incomplete) list
of
> requirements.  Please add to this list and/or comment on the limited
set
> suggested here.
> 
> 1 - To define an XML Schema based protocol for exchanging provisioning
> requests between a Requesting Authority (RA) and a Provisioning
Service
> Point (PSP).
> 
> 2 - To define an XML Schema based protocol for exchanging requests
> provisioning requests between a PSP and a Provisioning Service Target
> (PST).
> 
> 3 - To provide a query model that allows a RA to discover those
> provisioning elements it is authorized to act upon.
> 
> 4 - To provide a model that allows a RA and a PSP to dynamically
> discover the required data values for a given provisioning action.
> 
> 5 - To provide consideration for the security and general operational
> concerns of such an exchange system.
> 
> 6 - To provide guidelines on binding SPML to the SOAP and HTTP
> protocols.
> 
> 7 - To provide an open extensible solution that is independent of any
> one vendors implementation or solutions model.
> 
> 8 - To provide a transactional element to the request/response model
> that allows for the exchange of ordered batches of requests.
> 
> 9 - To deliver a solution in a timely manor.
> 
> 10 - To where possible and reasonable to re-use and extend existing
> standards efforts for the benefit of the SPML solution.
> 
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> Waveset Technologies Inc          drolls@waveset.com
> (512) 657 8360
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