Shibboleth Developers

["Tom Scavo" <>]

Some of you have probably already seen this, but just in case...

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Selected From The Cover Pages, by Robin Cover
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Charter Proposed for New WS-Federation Work in OASIS WSFED Committee

OASIS has acknowledged receipt of a draft Technical Committee charter
proposal to establish a new Web Services Federation (WSFED) Technical
Committee. The TC would accept as input the December 2006 Version 1.1
"WS-Federation" specification as published by BEA Systems Inc., BMC
Software, CA Inc., IBM Corporation, Layer 7 Technologies, Microsoft
Corporation, Novell Inc., and VeriSign Inc. The purpose of the WSFED
TC is to extend basic federation capabilities enabled by other Web
service Security specifications (WS-Security, WS-SecureConversation,
WS-Trust, WS-SecurityPolicy) to provide advanced federation capabilities.
The proposed charter is open for commment through on April 02, 2007.
Federation capabilities envisioned by the TC proposers "includes, but
is not limited to: structure and acquisition of federation metadata;
sign-out notifications; the use of pseudonym and identity mapping
services and attribute services in conjunction with Security Token
Services; claims-based authorization; and protection of a principal's
privacy with respect to claims asserted in security tokens. In addition,
the TC will define an HTTP serialization mechanism allowing the richness
of WS-Trust security token based mechanisms for SOAP Web services --
brokered trust relationships and distributed authentication and
authorization -- to be used in browser-based scenarios. This work will
be carried out through continued refinement of the Web Services
Federation Language (WS-Federation) Version 1.1 specification.

http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2007-03-20-a.html
See also the proposed TC Charter:
http://xml.coverpages.org/WSFED-ProposedCharter.html#proposedCharter

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