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Subject: [wsrp] updated draft security profile questions



Based on the feedback to-date, here is a clarified set of questions. The consensus on today's Interfaces SC call was to give people a week to potentially suggest additional refinements and then request answers from each vendor's security teams.

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Considering the number of customer requests for interoperable security profiles and the lack of a standardized policy framework for negotiating a security profile to use for WSRP-related messages, the WSRP TC is seeking input about whether simple interim, interoperable profiles could be defined for the use case of multiple vendor's implementations being deployed within a single security domain in the mid-2006 timeframe.

1. The WSRP use case involves an intermediary (the WSRP Consumer) acting on behalf of an End-User when interacting with the web service provider (the WSRP Producer). As a result, there is an interest in transferring the identities of both the WSRP Consumer and the End-User to the WSRP Producer. This results in several questions:

1.a. Do you support the receipt of multiple identities (Consumer and End-User) on a SOAP message which can be separately queried by the provider application?
Do you support sending multiple identities?
1.b. What WS-Security tokens will be supported for transferring identities (e.g. UserName, SAML, Kerberos, Digital Signature, etc)?

1.c. Would transferring the End-User identity via a WS-Security token and the Consumer identity via transport-level security be supported?

1.d. Any restrictions on how multiple identities can be attached to a particular SOAP message?


2. What security granularity is expected when transferring an identity (for example; portals often have a concept of user role that relates to the End-User's current use of the portal rather than their identity ... is the transfer of such attributes supported (e.g. via SAML attributes))?


3. Is support for maintaining security contexts for multiple web service requests anticipated? If so, using what security technology (e.g. WS-SecureConversation)?


4. Is automated configuration of all endpoints supported? If so, how are any particular inputs to the process indicated, supported, standardized and maintained?


Rich Thompson
OASIS WSRP TC Chair


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