Shibboleth Developers

At 12:44 PM -0800 1/11/05, RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote:
> Yuri:
>
> > Ken or somebody, can you update about planned milestones for the 
> > OpenSAML 2.0? Or any other (open) SAML 2.0 implementations?
>
> I don't think we have any announced milestones.  Now that the SAML 
> 2.0 spec is done, work can proceed on adding SAML 2.0 support to 
> opensaml and to Shib, but at the moment the priority is a next 
> release (1.3) that will still use SAML 1.1 (and 1.0 even, for US Fed 
> e-auth interop).  I think the plan is to have some SAML 2.0 support 
> available for use from CVS so folks who want to build on it can 
> start testing.  I'm sure Scott can provide more info.

Let me add a bit more information about timelines. We expect that 
shib v1.3 will be generally available in April, 2005. After that, we 
*may* start on WS-Fed interoperability (we  have previously announced 
a joint project with microsoft in this area).

We will also be starting to add support for SAML2.0 to Shibboleth. We 
are committed to extending Shibboleth to support SAML 2.0. The SAML 
2.0 specification is large... very large. Our recent conversations 
have been exploring the idea of an "interim release" that would 
contain the SAML 2 features that our community feels are most 
important. We've mentioned an early autumn date for the availability 
of this interim release. Obviously, though, there will be  a 
relationship between how much (or how little) it contains,and when it 
is available. This interim release would be  followed some time later 
by a release that fully supports SAML 2.

We'd be interested in comments and feedback about this approach, and 
thoughts about the content of an interim release.

Once we start work on SAML 2, we'd certainly like to talk to you 
about your recent work.