RE: Assertion Validation Service

[Philip Hallam-Baker <pbaker@verisign.com>]

Currently we are working to put together an activity proposal, however I
can't see that activity completing in the scope of SAML even if accepted.

Since any standardized XKMS would be based on XP rather than SOAP it could
not terminate earlier in any case.

It is however likely that a 1.2 draft of XKMS will appear as a note at some
point in the near future to reflect necessary adjustments discovered in the
interoperability testing currently taking place.

	Phill


Phillip Hallam-Baker FBCS C.Eng.
Principal Scientist
VeriSign Inc.
pbaker@verisign.com
781 245 6996 x227


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eve L. Maler [mailto:eve.maler@east.sun.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 1:52 PM
> To: security-core@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: Assertion Validation Service
> 
> 
> At 04:17 PM 4/13/01 -0400, Hal Lockhart wrote:
> >I have not been involved with XKMS. Perhaps it is destined 
> to be swiftly
> >ratified with little or no modification. That would 
> eliminate the problem.
> >Can anyone comment on this?
> 
> There is no such thing as a W3C "ratification" process.  If XKMS gets 
> accepted by the membership and staff as a useful work item, a 
> working group 
> would be created.  SOAP is an example of this process at 
> work.  SOAP was 
> submitted as a Note, and then the XML Protocol group was started to 
> generate a spec centered on SOAP.  The XMLP group is a huge 
> effort (about 
> as large as ours) that has gone back to do a requirements 
> phase all over again.
> 
> If we want to point to XKMS-or-its-successor, we'd do better 
> to point to 
> the Note if we want stability.
> 
>          Eve
> --
> Eve Maler                                             +1 781 442 3190
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> 
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