OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

The people who were discussing this might have confused SAML with SPML 
(Service Provisioning Markup Language), also by OASIS.  While some 
applications could use SAML to create accounts (the first time they see some 
come across with a SAML assertion) but that's about it.  SPML allows for 
creation and deletion of accounts, setting, updating, and removing 
attributes, and generally querying for an account, much more than what you 
could do with SAML.

Chad La Joie             315Q St. Mary's Hall
Project Sentinel         202.687.0124


----- Original Message -----
From: Prasad 
<>
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:09 pm
Subject: SAML for Provisioning

> Hi all,
> 
> I came across several discussion where people believed that SAML 
> can be 
> used as a tool/protocol for User Provisioning. As far as my 
> knowledge 
> goes, and I am well familiar with SAML 1.X but less with SAML 2.0, 
> I 
> don't think User Provisioning is something that falls in SAMLs 
> territory.
> Is my understanding correct or am I missing something ? Also,  can 
> anyone think of any use cases where SAML (1.1 and 2.0) or Liberty 
> Alliance can be leveraged for doing User Provisioning ?
> 
> Thanks.
> Prasad.
>