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Subject: Re: [security-services] goal statement thread
My hope was that we would be more thematic and less specific in the goal statement, so that it would guide us rather than bind us strictly. Two telecons ago, Hal (I think) came up with a cool alliterative triple that summarized our discussion to that point nicely, but I don't think we captured it. The first item was "Convergence". I would describe the convergence goal in terms of aligning better with the standards efforts and commercial deployments that are using SAML today. This covers not only Liberty and its implementations, but also the Internet2 work, the Global Grid Forum interest we've heard about, various large commercial deployments such as Boeing's, and even some vertical standards efforts. (Maybe if we use alliteration, we should go with "I" instead, as in "Inclusiveness" and "Interoperability". :-) I can't remember if we talked about this in that same telecon, but one my hopes -- going along with our discussion on outreach -- is to strengthen SAML's ease of use, for example by providing more tutorial materials, or at the least providing examples to accompany the specs. The metadata work is in service of both interop and ease of use, I think. Eve Jeff Hodges wrote: > Here's a shot at a goal stmt.. > > The goals of the SAML 2.0 effort are to expand the scope of the SAML > specification to address features such as identity federation, session > context, metadata exchange, authentication services, plus specify new > SAML > profiles that make use of them, such as B2B, A2A, back-office > profiles. We > will attain these goals by building upon the solid foundation of SAML > 1.0 and > through converegence with the Liberty Alliance v1.1 specifications. > > Comments appreciated! > > JeffH -- Eve Maler +1 781 442 3190 Sun Microsystems cell +1 781 354 9441 Web Products, Technologies, and Standards eve.maler @ sun.com ********************************************************************** SunNetwork 2003 Conference and Pavilion http://www.sun.com/sunnetwork September 16-18, 2003 Moscone Center, San Francisco An unparalleled event in network computing! Make the net work for you!
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