Web page updated, final docs posted, redirects in place

[Kelvin Lawrence <klawrenc@us.ibm.com>]

Folks, several bits of news to pass
along vis-a-vis the web page and our newly approved standards documents.

I just completed an update to the TC
web page [1] that makes it easy to find our new standards and provides
a placeholder/pointer to our pending errata materials. I have also updated
the page to include links to the other work in progress token profiles
etc. as people seem to be having trouble finding them.

Also, the OASIS staff have just posted
the pointers to our standards to the OASIS standards page at [2]

Also, as promised, the OASIS staff have
now created five permanent URLs (redirects) that will be guaranteed to
always point to our schemas and documents. These URLs are below [3] [4]
[5] [6] [7] I have updated the web page to point to our standards documents
using these URLs. So no matter what happens behind the scenes with the
document management system, these URLs should always redirect people to
the right place. This also gives us a static base URL for our documents
that should not ever change.

Further, the OASIS staff have updated
the title page of our new standards documents to show the status of the
documents as being OASIS standards and the date of the standard. The base
URL and a pointer to the WSS TC web page has also been added to the cover
pages. The documents have been uploaded and you probably all saw the system
messages notifying you of that in case you wondered what that was all about.

So, it has taken a while to get all
of this sorted out with the OASIS staff while we waited for them to figure
out the way they wanted this to work but I think we are now done. We appreciate
the help we have received from Karl Best and his team. Please check out
the web page [1] and let me know if you see any blunders. Thanks!

[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wss
[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php
[3] http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-soap-message-security-1.0.pdf
[4] http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1.0.pdf
[5] http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-x509-token-profile-1.0.pdf
[6] http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd
[7] http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd

Cheers
Kelvin

Kelvin R. Lawrence
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