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Subject: RE: [wsdm] [UPlat] Security



I like to look at this as:

1) The security of the management infrastructure
2) The management of the security infrastructure

It is reasonable to say the security of the management infrastructure
should be addressed by other standards such as WS-Security. But isn't
the management of the security infrastructure in the scope of the WSDM
effort? We can say that security standards bodies should address
manageability, but that is not likely to happen.


Jeff Bohren
Product Architect
OpenNetwork Technologies, Inc
 


-----Original Message-----
From: John DeCarlo [mailto:jdecarlo@mitre.org] 
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:39 AM
To: WSDM TC
Subject: [wsdm] [UPlat] Security


In response to [assign champions for each item. Start discussions on
mailing list * John - Security.]

Following the definition & need for management of Notification expressed
in the very nice aggregation message from Andreas D:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsdm/200310/msg00135.html

Primarily the issue with Security is that while the requirement for 
Security within manageability is extremely important, it is not unique 
to manageability.  All the same issues arise with any other Web Services

endpoint.  Every manageability endpoint and many business endpoints will

have requirements for confidentiality, integrity, and authentication, as

well as access control, availability, and privacy (see the definition of

Security). 

Also, there is the issue of location.  Security may be implemented in 
various ways.  For example, there could be a security filter/proxy in 
front of every Web Services endpoint (including the manageability 
endpoint) that only allows messages through that are valid, 
authenticated, authorized, and have no integrity problems identified.  
Or all of those functions could be performed by the endpoint itself.

Thus, the main concern for Security is that the specification allow for 
external Security infrastructure mechanisms that are composable on top 
of the manageability exposed via Web Services.  This will require 
examining other standards like WS-Security to ensure nothing done in the

specification precludes the composability of Security.

Another external effort is to work with standards groups developing 
interoperable Security infrastructure mechanisms.  It is desirable that 
these mechanisms provide manageability exposed via Web Services.

-- 

John DeCarlo, The MITRE Corporation, My Views Are My Own
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