Minutes of April 1, 2011 XSPA TC Conference Call

Friday, April 1, 2011 Minutes

XSPA Conference Call

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1. Roll Call & Agenda Review

Voting Members:

John Moehrke, GE

John Davis, Veterans Health Administration

Duane DeCouteau, Veterans Health Administration

David Staggs, Veterans Health Administration

Non-Voting Members:

Chris Garza, Jericho Systems Corporation

Quorum achieved (4/6 voting members)

2. Minutes of Friday, March 4, 2011 are approved.

3. Future demonstrations were discussed. Mike suggested contacting Gartner to inquire if they would want to host a demonstration of the XSPA profiles at the upcoming Gartner/Burton conference. The conference date is 26-29 July 2011. David has called and sent e-mails to the Gartner representatives and has not received a response.

4. Discussion on the creation of an OASIS reference model of XSPA. Duane showed material describing the VA reference model. Mike told the group that the VA is building a reference model on top of the XSPA model. The VA reference model will have web services, schemas, and working code examples. Mike stated the VA model goes beyond what the XSPA TC might want to host at the OASIS site. John stated that the VA work was a not a reference model, instead it seems it is an instantiation of a reference model with a specific vocabulary. Mike took an action item to find out if the VA model could be released to the general public.

Duane suggested the OASIS reference model would encompass the functionality that could validate or generate an XSPA message. Mike saw this as a reference implementation instead of a reference model and that Duane was suggesting creation of a test harness. Duane took an action item to define the SAML validation functionality of the test harness an when that might be offered to OASIS.

5. General discussion included how the Nation Wide Health Information Network (NwHIN) Connect might be using XSPA attributes compared to the work being done in NwHIN Direct. John stated XDR will be recognized as “NwHIN Direct-compliant” John distinguished end-to-end distribution of health related information within an enterprise vs. communications between enterprises which require SMIME for compliance in NwHIN Direct. The comparison of Direct with Exchange is informational only; XSPA is aimed at web service communications.

Regards,

David

David Staggs, JD, CISSP (SAIC)
Veterans Health Administration
Chief Health Informatics Office
Standards and Interoperability
Office: 858 433 1473

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