Minutes of 31 August 2006 TC meeting

[Anne Anderson <Anne.Anderson@sun.com>]

Minutes of the OASIS XACML Technical Committee Meeting
03 August 2006

Voting Member Attendees:
   Hal Lockhart (Chair)
   Michiharu Kudo
   Tony Nadalin
   Ron Williams
   Argyn Kuketayev
   Abbie Barbir
   Kamalendu Biswas
   Anne Anderson (Minutes)
   Seth Proctor
   David Staggs

Member Attendee:
   Daniel Engovatov

Observer:
   Greg Desmarais, Sigaba

Regrets:
   Erik Rissanen
   Bill Parducci (Co-Chair)

1.  Roll Call and Agenda Review

     Quorum was achieved

2.  Approval of minutes from last two calls

     Minutes from 3 August 2006 TC Meeting
     http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200608/msg00003.html

     Minutes from 17 August 2006 TC Meeting
     http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200608/msg00004.html

     Minutes were approved unanimously.

3.  Announcements

     a. New TC Process Changes - N.B. Errata Process

        There is now a streamlined process for getting approval of
        an errata document; can do this no more than twice a year.
        We currently have core spec errata, SAML spec and schemas
        errata, and the core and SAML schemas needing OASIS
        copyrights.  Work needed is to compare the specs to create
        a list of changes (and a red-lined version).

        ACTION ITEM: Hal will work on the necessary diffs.

     b. Registration of XACML with ET.gov - status update

        Hal has sent the updated draft to the OASIS staff, but has
        not heard back.  Issue is whether OASIS staff will do the
        registration or us.

     c. Status of XACML in ITU/T

        Abbie reported that XACML 2.0 was submitted in June.  The
        review process should be done in 4-5 weeks.

4.  New proposal - Pagination support for policy query and assertion 
(Issue#39)
     http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200608/msg00006.html

     Kamalindu Biswas submitted a proposal for dealing with too
     many policies to return in response to and XACMLPolicyQuery.
     The proposal adds two elements: PaginationRequest, and
     PaginationResponse.  Hal suggested this is going beyond
     "retrieving policies to meet a situation", and it might be
     good to specify a "provisioning protocol" that supports
     queries for all policies, number of policies, updated
     policies, etc., possibly based on SPML, but with
     XACML-specific components.  Seth mentioned issues of what
     happens if new policies are added or deleted in the range
     that was already sent, etc.  Could be based on a "snapshot"
     model, but then must deal with timeout, etc.

     Status: take this to the list to get proposals and general
     direction.

5.  Proposal for Attribute categories (Issue#3)
     http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200608/msg00008.html

     Daniel Engovatov submitted draft schemas and other
     information as a specific proposal to deal with the decision
     to support extensible groupings of attributes.  People are
     encouraged to review his proposal and send comments to the
     list.

The meeting adjourned at 10:50am EDT.


Note: Issues list is at http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xacml/IssuesList


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