Grouper Developers Forum

["RL 'Bob' Morgan" <>]

If folks haven't seen it:

http://blog.talkingidentity.com/2010/08/pushing-forward-on-standards-based-provisioning.html

http://blogs.gartner.com/mark-diodati/2010/08/20/consensus-on-the-future-of-standards-based-provisioning-and-spml

Some notes on SPML discussions at the recent Burton/Gartner Catalyst 
meeting.  Sounds like the OASIS SPML TC:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=provision

is being revived.  I also see that a couple of HE folks attended the 
discussion at Catalyst.  If we have requirements that the current SPML 
spec isn't meeting, this would be a great time to surface them.

The question remains whether any vendors will implement, but the 
difference these days (seems to me) is there's a lot more provisioning 
into cloud services going on, motivating a standards-based approach in a 
way that trad products for enterprise deployment (eg, well, Grouper) 
doesn't.

 - RL "Bob"