RE: [wss] TC for Policy in support of WSS and other activities

[Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com]

I plan to attend this meeting in person.

Thank you

regards, Frederick
 
Frederick Hirsch
Nokia Mobile Phones




> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext ronald monzillo [mailto:ronald.monzillo@sun.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 7:30 PM
> To: 'Web Services Security'
> Subject: Re: [wss] TC for Policy in support of WSS and other 
> activities
> 
> 
> This message contains the agenda for the policy meeting
> SUN will be hosting on Feb 21 at its Sun Burlington MA.
> campus.
> 
> This meeting will focus on the characterization of the
> policy related functionality required to support the
> interoperable use of mechanisms, including, but not
> limited to, the SOAP message security mechanisms being
> defined by the Web Services Security TC. The purpose of
> the meeting will be to capture these requirements in
> proposed charters for one or more open forums that will
> serve the industry by providing solutions to these
> important problems.
> 
> We intend to convene this meeting without requiring a
> pre-meeting legal agreement. The meeting will be a
> discussion of an important class of interoperability
> problems and will not attempt to craft or enhance a
> technical specification built on contributions from
> the attendees. No attendee should have any expectations
> regarding the confidentiality of the meeting, its contents,
> or its results. Each speaker must be responsible for what
> they choose to say, keeping in mind that no expectation of
> confidentiality should be presumed to apply to the statements
> they make.
> 
> We request that those who have not yet done so confirm their
> intentto attend or participate by teleconference so that we
> can reserve sufficient space and call-in capacity. We also
> encourage you to share this invitation with others who you
> feel may be interested or should participate. We will
> distribute call in details before the meeting.
> 
> The meeting will begin at 8:30 A.M. (EST) and end at
> about 5:30 P.M.
> 
> The following is the proposed Agenda:
> 
> 8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast
> 
> 8:30-8:45 Welcome and Introductions
> 
> 8:45-9:00 Agenda Review and Refinement
> 
> 9:00-10:30 Use Cases and Example Scenarios
> 
>      What types of policy negotiation problems do we seek
>      solutions for?
> 
>      What is the nature of the interactions whose properties
>      are being negotiated?
> 
>      What is the relationship of the negotiation to
>      the interaction whose properties are being negotiated?
> 
>      Where in the interactions is there a need to apply
>      the policies of the various actors in an interaction?
> 
> 10:30-10:45 Break
> 
> 10:45-12:30 Detailed Problem Characterization and Decomposition
> 
>      Consideration of the following aspects and others
>      as appropriate.
> 
>      The distribution or other communication of
>      policy between interacting entities
> 
>      The grouping of related policy statements or the
>      composition of policy from smaller perhaps reusable
>      statment groups.
> 
>      The reconciliation of policy negotiation with
>      a layered processing model
> 
>      The need for a semantic model in which to
>      configure, manage, and interpret (including
>      in combination) groups of policy staments.
> 
>      The need to allow for (perhaps decentralized)
>      evolution of the policy framework or statement model.
> 
> 12:30-1:30 Lunch
> 
> 1:30-3:15 Presentation and collaborative development of
>     Work descriptions suitable for inclusion in the
>     charters of one or more forums.
> 
> 3:30-3:45 Break
> 
> 3:45-5:50 Charter Discussion
> 
>      What forums (eg. TCs), if any, do we perceive as the
>      appropriate host for a particular piece of work?
> 
>      Definition of next steps:
> 
>      How do we transfer problem description(s) to the
>      appropriate forums, including potentially by deciding
>      to charter a new forum?
> 
>      Discussion of forum specific requirements, collection
>      of advocates, sponsors, etc, to meet the requirements
>      of the standard organization.
>