3/23/04 Minutes

["Don Flinn" <flinn@alum.mit.edu>]

Below are the minutes for the 3/23/04 telecom.  Please send any corrections
or omissions to the list.  The attendance list will be included in the
update.

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Minutes 3/23/04

Roll call – Quorum achieved;  44 out of 55

Previous minutes accepted unanimously

Kelvin presented a member voting status update on the specification – out of
354 possible members – So far there are 48 yes,  0 No votes.  If you haven’t
voted yet, please get your representative to vote.  We would like all the
member organizations to vote.

General Interop status ran for two weeks.  Some of the sites are still up so
people can still run an interop.  Of the 339 tests, 80% passed, 11% failed,
9% still unknown.  Please look at the results and give Chris any updates or
corrections.  Chris will post an initial version of the interop results to
the list.

Status of the other profiles

SAML/ XrML interop status
SAML would like to have a different date, say a month after the XrML
interop.  Mid-May was proposed.
Some companies which are doing the XrML profile can do the SAML interop at
the same time.
Plan is to do the XrML interop in April and the SAML interop in May.

Issues

264 – The editors should put purely typos in the errata.  For text changes
they shall send the changes to the list before they are incorporated in the
errata.

265 - Postponed

Status of the profiles

SAML profile - Some edits still needed. These edits are not impeding the
interop doc.
XrML profile is stable.

Attachments
Mark will write down problems with encrypting attachments and send it to the
list.

SAML interop, Maneesh from Westbridge will send e-mail on questions relative
to the holder-of-key procedure.

Schedule for the remaining profiles
XRML - April
SAML - mid-May
Kerberos - Something will be sent to list by the next call
The plan is for the rest of the profiles is that they be completed over the
next three months.  The profiles are on individual schedules.

A question was raised as to whether WS-I has any preference for order of the
remaining profiles as their last preference was made some time ago.  Ron
asked to have WS_I reissue their prioritization of the order of the
remaining tokens.  Ron, will send e-mail formalizing that request.

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Donald Flinn
President
Flint Security LLC
Phone: 781/856-7230
e-mail: flinn@alum.mit.edu
http://flintsecurity.com