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Subject: Re: [wss] Fwd: WS-Security specs make their debut
- From: Kelvin Lawrence <klawrenc@us.ibm.com>
- To: Ed Reed <ereed@novell.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:51:01 -0600
Hi Ed, thanks for the note, I think
the press article you referenced was unfortunately very poorly worded and
seems to use the phrase "WS-Security" in a generic sense where
the phrase "security roadmap" would have been more accurate.
As I know you are aware, IBM and Microsoft
produced a Web services security roadmap back in April, along with the
roadmap, a single concrete specification called WS-Secuirity was also produced.
WS-Security was outlined in the roadmap as the basis for the rest of the
specifications in the roadmap. WS-Security was consequently submitted to
OASIS and the WSS TC was chartered.
What IBM, Microsoft,Verisign, RSA Security,
BEA Systems and SAP have done this week is to deliver drafts of some
of the other specifications described in the roadmap. As you recall the
WSS-TC did not want to assume the responsibility of the roadmap, and at
our first F2F in September the charter was clarified after a lot of discussion
to make it clear what the scope of the TC was. The roadmap itself was not
submitted to the TC in any formal way.
So while I agree the article you pointed
us all to is poorly worded, the WSS-TC has not undertaken any new specifications
in your absence or anything like that and the charter has not been
changed. I spoke to some of the people who participated in the announcement
of these new specs and they told me that it was made very clear that these
were new specs being delivered as part of filling out the roadmap. Unfortunately
this particular journalist seems to have used some incorrect words and
confused WS-Security with the overall roadmap. I have seen other articles
this week that do focus on the roadmap more accurately.
Also, some of the other press articles I
have seen do go on to say that the authors of the new specifications intend
to take the specifications to a standards body which is accurate coverage.
As of today, the new specifications are published to the respective author's
web sites to allow people to comment on them.
I hope this clears things up a bit,
and likewise best wishes for a safe and happy holiday period to you and
all of our TC members.
Cheers
Kelvin
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