Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Zeller <>]

There is an OASIS Provisioning Services TC call at 2pm (Eastern
UTC-05:00) today, available to 'members', of which 3 are from
higher-ed. We'll see...

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:48 PM, RL 'Bob' Morgan
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 wrote:
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> If folks haven't seen it:
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> http://blog.talkingidentity.com/2010/08/pushing-forward-on-standards-based-provisioning.html
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> http://blogs.gartner.com/mark-diodati/2010/08/20/consensus-on-the-future-of-standards-based-provisioning-and-spml
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> Some notes on SPML discussions at the recent Burton/Gartner Catalyst
> meeting.  Sounds like the OASIS SPML TC:
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> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=provision
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> 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"
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>