FW: status of ITU submission

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-----Original Message-----
From: Karl F. Best [mailto:karl.best@oasis-open.org] 
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 8:58 AM
To: Philpott, Robert; 'Mishra, Prateek'; Hal Lockhart; Bill Parducci
Cc: Eve L. Maler
Subject: status of ITU submission

A status update on the ITU submission:

I think that I've got everything except for the list of normative vs. 
non-normative references that Eve has offered to put together for SAML. 
(Bill provided this for XACML.)

I'm still waiting for the ITU guys to tell me the schedule for the 
meeting so that I can tell Hal when to be there. (The meeting is for ten 
days, but I doubt that we're needed the entire time.) Hal will be our 
technical respresentative so that there's someone there to give a 
technical presentation regarding the specs and to answer questions. ITU 
has suggested that someone be there to give an overview of other OASIS 
activities, so I will probably be at the meeting also.

Below is a discussion among the SG17 leadership about how the OASIS 
submissions will be positioned relative to other ITU work; apparently 
our submission must be assigned to an existing Question in the SG. 
Olivier is suggesting an ASN.1 connection; is this appropriate?

-Karl



Olivier Dubuisson wrote:
> Bertine, Herbert V (Herbert) wrote:
> 
>> Georges,
>> Olivier,
>>
>> I greatly appreciate and accept the offer.  
> 
> 
> Okay. If the house and the garden do not take too much of my time, I'll 
> begin to work on this tomorrow ;) Otherwise I'll work on it at night at 
> the hotel next week (I'll be attending the ASN.1 meeting all week).
> 
>> One of the first tasks is to confirm the relevant Questions and get 
>> agreement of the Rapporteurs as to when the OASIS contributions will 
>> be discussed.  Also we need to schedule a tutorial session where OASIS 
>> can present information about OASIS itself.  These need to be 
>> coordinated now so that the OASIS people can make their travel plans 
>> to be in Geneva at the right time.
> 
> 
> The ASN.1 Group think that SAML and XACML provide excellent use cases 
> for how we can improve the application of ASN.1 to XML-based protocols.
> The Fast infoset (ITU-T Rec. X.695, at the stage of working draft) could 
> be used for SAML and XACML documents.
> I imagine that (at least) an Annex could be added to the corresponding 
> ITU-T Rec.s with an ASN.1 schema equivalent to the XML Schema and text 
> explaining the benefits of ASN.1.
> 
> So, even if those OASIS standards are relevant to one of the new Q.10 
> questions, it would be good if Q.12 was associated to the work. But I 
> let John (who is in Cc of this email) comment.


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