The original Call For Participation for this TC may be found at
<mustFllInThislink>.
The charter was revised at the a meeting of the TC on <date> as
minuted at <link>.
The charter for this TC is as follows.
Name
The official name is the Provisioning Services Technical Committee (PSTC).
The PSTC is sometimes unofficially called the "SPML TC" or the "PSTC/SPML
committee".
Statement of Purpose
Inter-enterprise and intra-enterprise application architectures
require interoperable provisioning services that transcend the boundaries of
single security domains. The interoperable exchange of identity information
between domains, including the ability to manage identities across such
domains, is crucial to developing solutions for provisioning across
arbitrary systems and topologies.
The purpose of the TC is to define, enhance, and maintain a standard,
XML-based framework for creating and managing information that represents user
identities and related entities.
Scope of Work
The TC is engaged in evolving the suite of SPML specifications and in
applying those specifications to use-cases that are of interest to its
members. The Statement of Purpose above will guide the scope of this effort,
which continues after the release of SPML 2.0.
This effort will deliver on the following goals:
• Address
issues and enhancement requests that have arisen from experience with
real-world implementations of SPML and from experience with other
enterprise architectures that perform provisioning.
• Add support
for features that were deferred from previous versions of SPML.
• Develop an
approach for unifying various identity-provisioning models found in
real-world implementations of SPML and in SPML-based provisioning
services.
List of Deliverables
The TC released the V2.0 specifications on <date>. Work products may
include updates to the following specifications published by the TC for
V2.0:
• SPML
Protocol
• SPML DSML
Profile
• SPML XSD
Profile
•
Glossary
• Conformance
Program
The Committee may also produce additional documents, such as specifications
of new SPML profiles.
Audience
The primary audience for the final output of this TC are the architects and
implementers of provisioning services.
Language of the TC
All business of the TC will be conducted in
English.