How to on Statements of Use

[Hal Lockhart <hal.lockhart@oracle.com>]

The following text from the TC Process defines Statements of Use.

'"Statement of Use", with respect to a Committee Specification, is a written statement that a party has successfully used or implemented that specification in accordance with all or some of its conformance clauses specified in Section 2.18, identifying those clauses that apply, and stating whether its use included the interoperation of multiple independent implementations. The Statement of Use must be made to a specific version of the Committee Specification and must include the Specification's approval date. The party may be an OASIS Member or a non-member. In case of a non-member, the Statement of Use must be submitted on the TC comment-list. A TC may require a Statement of Use to include hyperlinks to documents, files or demonstration transcripts that enable TC members to evaluate the implementation or usage. A Statement of Use submitted to the TC must be approved by TC resolution as an acceptable Statement of Use with respect to the Committee Specification. A party can only issue one Statement of Use for a given specification. When issued by an OASIS Organizational Member, a Statement of Use must be endorsed by the Organizational Member's Primary Representative.'

Notes:

Contents must include:

  "Used" or "Implemented" or "Implemented and Used"

  Conformance clauses - list or "all"

  Interoperation "yes" or "no" I would say that those who participated in the public
  events around specific profiles, e.g. RSA can say "yes" for those profiles

  Version (CS ##) and date of approval of CS

Post to main list (non-OASIS members post to XACML-comment)

OASIS members statements must be endorsed by Primary rep - if Primary is not a TC member, send statement to him/her have reply with endorsement and then forward to TC list.

TC is allowed to add criteria. XACML TC has not done this in past.

TC is required to vote to accept SoUs before OS submission.

Hal