Re: [security-services] OASIS SSTC letter to authors of WS-Security(draft)

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Mishra, Prateek wrote:

> this is the proposed text of the message we plan to send to WS-Security
> authors. I am circulating it to the list as (1) we voted on the contents
> on the message, not its exact form, so here is a last chance to object,
> (2) neither jeff nor joe was on the call, so here is a chance for them
> to object.

Sorry I missed the Tuesday June 25 call (was there one?).  I guess the
submission of WS-Security to OASIS makes this letter moot?

 - RL "Bob"

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> In April 2002, Microsoft and IBM jointly published a document entitled
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> "Security in a Web Services World: A Proposed Architecture and
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> Roadmap" (http://www.verisign.com/wss/architectureRoadmap.pdf), and
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> Microsoft, IBM, and VeriSign published a companion specification, "Web
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> Services Security (WS-Security) Version 1.0"
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> (http://www.verisign.com/wss/wss.pdf). The OASIS Security Services
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> Technical Committee, which has produced the Security Assertion Markup
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> Language (SAML) specification, considers these documents to be
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> important contributions to web services security. The SSTC views the
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> WS-Security technical specification as complementary to SAML, and
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> intends to use WS-Security in specifying the use of SAML for adding
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> security features to SOAP messages.
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> The SSTC urges the authors of the WS-Security specification to submit
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> the specification to an open standards body for further development,
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> standardization, and building of industry consensus. In particular,
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> intellectual property rights issues regarding this specification and
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> its technologies should be addressed to enable broad use of this work.
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>