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Subject: WS-SecureConversation 1.4 Submitted for OASIS Standard
OASIS Members: The OASIS Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) Technical Committee has submitted the following specification, which is an approved Committee Specification, to be considered as an OASIS Standard: WS-SecureConversation 1.4 The text of the TC submission is appended. You now have until 15 January to familiarize yourself with the submission and provide input to your organization's voting representative. On 16 January, a Call For Vote will be issued to all Voting Representatives of OASIS member organizations. They will have until the last day of January, inclusive, to cast their ballots on whether this Committee Specification should be approved as an OASIS Standard or not. Members who wish to discuss this ballot may do so through member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org. In accordance with the OASIS Technical Committee Process, this Committee Specification has already completed the necessary 60-day public review period as noted in the submission below. The normative TC Process for approval of Committee Specifications as OASIS Standards is found at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process-2008-06-19.php#OASISstandard Any statements related to the IPR of this specification are posted at: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ws-sx/ipr.php Your participation in the review and balloting process is greatly appreciated. Mary ----------------------------------------------------------- Mary P McRae Director, Technical Committee Administration OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org web: www.oasis-open.org phone: 1.603.232.9090 ----------------------- (a) Links to the approved Committee Specification in the TC's document repository, and any appropriate supplemental documentation for the specification, both of which must be written using the OASIS templates. SecureConversation v1.4 PDF: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-secureconversation/v1.4/cd/ws-secureconv ersation-1.4-spec-cs-01.pdf HTML: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-secureconversation/v1.4/cd/ws-secureconv ersation-1.4-spec-cs-01.html Editable Source (Word): http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-secureconversation/v1.4/cd/ws-secureconv ersation-1.4-spec-cs-01.doc Schema: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-secureconversation/200512/ws-secureconve rsation-1.3.xsd (b) The editable version of all files that are part of the Committee Specification; See above. (c) Certification by the TC that all schema and XML instances included in the specification, whether by inclusion or reference, including fragments of such, are well formed, and that all expressions are valid; Yes the XML has been verified. See http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ws-sx/200812/msg00011.html (d) A clear English-language summary of the specification; The WS-SecureConversation specification defines extensions to allow security context establishment and sharing, and session key derivation. This allows contexts to be established and potentially more efficient keys or new key material to be exchanged, thereby increasing the overall performance and security of the subsequent exchanges. The security context is defined as a new WS-Security token type that is obtained using a binding of WS-Trust. (e) A statement regarding the relationship of this specification to similar work of other OASIS TCs or other standards developing organizations; This specification utilizes the WS-Security specification and optionally utilizes the SAML specifications. (f) Certification by at least three OASIS member organizations that they are successfully using the specification; IBM: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ws-sx/200811/msg00048.html Microsoft: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ws-sx/200811/msg00040.html Oracle: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ws-sx/200811/msg00047.html (g) The beginning and ending dates of the public review(s), a pointer to the announcement of the public review(s), and a pointer to an account of each of the comments/issues raised during the public review period(s), along with its resolution; Began 24 July 2008 and ended 23 September 2008 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00009.html Issues and resolutions: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/issues/Issues.xml (h) An account of and results of the voting to approve the specification as a Committee Specification, including the date of the ballot and a pointer to the ballot; http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=1584 (i) An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any earlier attempts to standardize substantially the same specification, together with the originating TC's response to each comment; N/A (j) A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the originating TC; http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ws-sx-comment/ (k) A pointer to any minority reports submitted by one or more Members who did not vote in favor of approving the Committee Specification, which report may include statements regarding why the member voted against the specification or that the member believes that Substantive Changes were made which have not gone through public review; or certification by the Chair that no minority reports exist. 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