15-day Public Review for SAML 2.0 Session Token Profile Version 1.0

The OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC [1] members have produced an updated  
Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for  
15-day public review:

SAML 2.0 Session Token Profile Version 1.0

Committee Specification Draft 02 / Public Review Draft 02

13 May 2011 

Specification Overview:

Web Servers and Application Servers generally maintain security state  
information for currently active users, particularly once some type of  
authentication has occurred. This specification defines a format for  
communicating such security session state based on the OASIS SAML Assertion.  
It also specifies two different mechanisms for communicating this information  
between servers via a standard Web browser. 

TC Description:

The Security Services TC is currently developing a number of specification  
which build on the SAML 2.0 OASIS Standard and specify its use in a variety  
of contexts. 

Public Review Period:

The 15-day public review starts Monday, 11 July 2011 and ends Tuesday, 26  
July 2011. The specification was previously submitted for a 30-day public  
review on 01 April 2011 [2]. This 15-day review is limited in scope to  
changes made from the previous review. 

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from  
potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the  
sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

URIs:

The prose specification document and related files are available here:

Editable source (Authoritative):

http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/saml-session-token/v1.0/csprd02/saml-session-token-v1.0-csprd02.odt

PDF:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/saml-session-token/v1.0/csprd02/saml-session-token-v1.0-csprd02.pdf:

HTML:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/saml-session-token/v1.0/csprd02/saml-session-token-v1.0-csprd02.html

XML Schema:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/saml-session-token/v1.0/csprd02/xsd/saml-session-token-v1.0-metadata.xsd	

ZIP distribution package:

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose  
specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download  
the ZIP file here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/saml-session-token/v1.0/csprd02/saml-session-token-v1.0-csprd02.zip

Additional information about this specification and the OASIS Security  
Services (SAML) TC may be found on the TC's public home page located at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the  
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be accessed via the button labeled "Send  
A Comment" at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=security

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of  
this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/security-services-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License,  
which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at  
least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public  
review of 'SAML 2.0 Session Token Profile Version 1.0', we call your  
attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [3] applicable especially [4] to the work  
of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with  
this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and  
availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights  
that read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites any persons who  
know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the  
implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be  
posted to the notice page for this TC's work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/

[2] Previous public review (01 April 2011 through 01 May 2011)

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201104/msg00000.html

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ws-calendar/ipr.php
http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#s10.2.2

RF on RAND

Best Regards,

/chet

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Chet Ensign

Director of Standards Development and TC Administration

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

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