WSFED TC Meeting minutes for August 05, 2008

[Mike Kaiser <mkaiser@us.ibm.com>]

WSFED TC Meeting minutes for August
05, 2008 

        We are grateful to Nortel for sponsoring this
call. 

Summary of new Action Items:

        All
members need to review PR0001 and PR0002 and send resolutions 
        before
next meeting.  If we don't have resolutions or new agenda 
        items
the chairs will consider cancelling the August 19th meeting.

1. Call to order
         
      - Verify Minute
Taker   
        
               Mike
Kaiser to take minutes.
   
          
       - Roll
Call 
        
         
      -
Status Change (as of end of meeting):
        
               -
Gained Voting Status
        
               
       None

         
              -
Lost Voting Status

         
               
      None
                    
    
         
      -
Attendance
       
         
               
      Doug Davis;IBM
         
               
      Mike Kaiser;IBM
         
               
      Michael McIntosh;IBM
         
               
      Anthony Nadalin;IBM
         
               
      Geoff Bullen;Microsoft Corporation
         
               
      Greg Carpenter;Microsoft Corporation
         
               
      Marc Goodner;Microsoft Corporation
         
               
      Chris Kaler;Microsoft Corporation
         
               
      Don Schmidt;Microsoft Corporation
         
               
      Abbie Barbir;Nortel
         
               
      Lloyd Burch;Novell*
         
               
      Steve Carter;Novell*
         
               
      Doug Earl;Novell*
         
               
      Rich Levinson;Oracle Corporation
         
               
      Tony Gullotta;SOA Software Inc.
         
               
      Don Adams;TIBCO Software Inc.
         
               
      Kent Spaulding;Tripod Technology Group, Inc.
         
               
      David Staggs;Veterans Health Administration
  
2. Reading/Approving minutes from July 08, 2008 [1]
        
       -
Approved unanimously. 

3. TC Logistics 
        
       - Reminder:
  
         
       
      The
TC meets every two weeks, however especially during the
         
              summer
months if there are not enough agenda items and 
         
              there
seem to be a high number of folks away from the office
         
              then the
meeting may be cancelled by the Chairs.  Please 
         
              monitor
the OASIS TC calendar and postings prior to each 
         
              meeting.
 
                
       The next scheduled meeting is now August
19th, 2008.
                   
4. Issues list [2] 
        
       - Actions

         
              No
open action items. 

        
       - Issues
               
  
        
               i015
- Non-standardized Normative References 
         
               
      http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsfed/issues/Issues.xml#i015
     
               
    
         
               
      Not
discussed.

        
       NEW ISSUES:

         
              PR0001:
Revise federation metadata document structure to eliminate 
         
               
              ambiguities
and improve interoperability[3]
                
               
         
               
      An
implementation effort found ambiguities with respect to 
         
               
      metadata.  Some sort of structuring mechanism
is required.  
         
               
      SAML Metadata already seems to include the
structures being 
         
               
      looked at.  Discussions with some of
the SAML folks seems to 
         
               
      support this notion and they seem to be willing
to consider 
         
               
      supporting the small changes needed to support
WSFED's needs 
         
               
      here.  This might be a good mechanism
for harmony between
         
               
      the two groups rather than WSFED working to
create a 
         
               
      different version.

         
               
      Because there are current implementations
of WSFED spec 
         
               
      currently being shipped and others in the
queue getting ready 
         
               
      for shipment.  Migration needs to be
considered as this gets 
         
               
      resolved. A new namespace was mentioned as
a potential for 
         
               
      handling this.

         
               
      Teams who have begun implementation of the
specification need 
         
               
      to review the issue and potentials for migration.


         
               
      ACTION: Change state to Active.
         
               
      

         
              PR0002:
Federation metadata, DNS SRV, and RFC 2782 [4]

         
               
      Three
problems noted with WSFED's use of data retrieval
         
               
      mechanisms.  Problem statement suggests
that all you
         
               
      really need is HTTP/HTTPS mechanism.  
               
     

                
                  
            ACTION: Change
state to Active.     

5. Other business 
                None.
       
       

6. Roll Call Additions 
                One
addition. 

7. Adjournment 
        
       Meeting
adjourned.   


[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsfed/200807/msg00002.html
[2] http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsfed/issues/Issues.xml 
[3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsfed/200808/msg00001.html
[4] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsfed/200808/msg00000.html