WS-Trust 1.3 and 1.4 inconsistencies

[Willem Salembier <willem.salembier@gmail.com>]

I'd like to inform you of some inconsistenties in the WS-Trust 1.3 and 1.4 specification. I wonder if the 1.4 specification is really terminated.

• This page  http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200802 has no reference to the WSDL of WS-Trust 1.4. It seems to be the same specification as WS-Trust 1.3, why is there no link?

• The link to the wsdl in the specification document is dead (http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/v1.4/ws-trust.wsdl)
  --> http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/v1.4/ws-trust.pdf

• The wsdl in the appendix isn't valid either, it misses quotes on lines 3216-3217

        <wsdl:output wsam:Action=http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512/RSTR/ValidateFinal message="tns:RequestSecurityTokenResponseMsg"/>

It also refers to a non-existing xml schema http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512/ws-trust.xsd with namespace http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512 instead of http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512/ (with slash at the end)

cfr http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512/ws-trust-1.3.xsd

Compared to the wsdl of v1.3 it lacks some information, I think.

• Speaking of slashes. In the 1.3 specification we find 

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512/ws-trust-1.3.xsd

targetNamespace='http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512/'

But the specification says:

The [URI] that MUST be used by implementations of this specification is: 

52 http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512

To my knowledge the W3C says trailing slashes are significant. The tools surely implement this.

• Now 1.4 specification

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/v1.4/ws-trust.xsd

Broken link: it should be http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/v1.4/ws-trust-v14.xsd

references xmlns:wst='http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512' (again without slash)

I wonder why the WS-Trust specifications are such a mess and I understand now why vendors have such difficulties to offer proper tool support.Can you please rectify these issues? Thanks.

Best Regards,

Willem Salembier

Architect