Re: [security-services] Any interest in possible SAML interop at RSA2005?

["Eve L. Maler" <Eve.Maler@Sun.COM>]

Sorry for the delay in responding; Sun is interested in participating.

	Eve

Philpott, Robert wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> This may seem like quite a ways off, but in mid-Feb, RSA will hold their 
> RSA 2005 conference.  I got mail from Dee Shur at OASIS recently stating 
> that she’d been asked whether we might hold another such event at the 
> next conference.  Dee had also contacted our conference planners about 
> it as well. So I got a call from our conference folks asking whether we 
> would be doing a similar event in Feb since they really need to plan the 
> space, etc. much more in advance than we did the last time.
> 
> The 2004 event was a huge success with about a dozen vendors 
> participating with SAML 1.1 solutions and the booth was very well 
> attended.  It was also sponsored by the GSA eGov program.
> 
> So… I’d like to hear back from anyone that thinks this would be a good 
> idea and whether they’d be interested.  Feel free to respond on the list 
> or privately if you’d prefer.
> 
> Obviously, the first question that comes up is whether we would demo 
> SAML 1.1 again or whether there will be enough SAML 2.0 implementations 
> to demo it instead?  Or perhaps we’d want to figure out how to work both 
> in somehow.  I‘d be interested in your input on these questions.
> 
> If you could, our conference planners need an indication of our interest 
> fairly soon.  I’d appreciate hearing back from you in the next week.
> 
> Thanks everyone.
> 
> *Rob Philpott*
> /Senior Consulting Engineer/ 
> *RSA Security Inc.*
> *Tel: 781-515-7115*
> *Mobile**: 617-510-0893*
> *Fax: 781-515-7020*
> mailto:rphilpott@rsasecurity.com

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