OASIS Security Joint Committee (SJC)
Meeting Minutes

Logistics
Roll-call
Other Business
Business In Order
Action Items & Motions
References


Logistics

Meeting Date 08/22/2002
Meeting Time 10:00 PM PDT
Location

Dial-in #: 888-742-8686
ID: 5250215

Call host: Waveset Technologies

Duration 1 Hour
Chair Phil Griffin
Recording Secretary Darran Rolls
Agenda Available in [3]

Roll-call

(PG) Phil Griffin, Griffin Consulting OASIS XCBF TC Present
(KB) Karl Best, OASIS OASIS Present
(HL) Hal Lockhart, Entegrity OASIS XACML TC Present
(JP) Joe Pato, HP Labs OASIS SS TC Absent
(HR) Hari Reddy, ContentGuard OASIS RL TC Absent
(MM) Monca Martin, Certivo OASIS XCBF TC Present
(DR) Darran Rolls, Waveset OASIS PS TC Present
(KS) Krishna Sankar, Cisco OASIS TAB Absent
(CA) Carlisle Adams, Entrust OASIS XACML TC Present
(BG) Brad Gandee OASIS RL TC Present

Other Business

PG None  

Business In Order

2 Approve minutes of committee meeting 08-08-2002 published in [1]
PG Motion to accept minutes of committee meeting 08-08-2002. Passed unanimously. (M)

3 Discuss the OASIS submission dates and calendar
KB Change in TC process is before the TAB. Still another month away from board submission. Middle of September is the earliest date. Will announce to the OASIS lists when this becomes effective. Preview - specification approval process goes from 5 months to 2 months with a submission cycle starting every month.
HL Current 5 month cycle is 1 month prep - 3 month review - one month vote. What is the new one?
KB New cycle with be 2 weeks prep - 1 month review - 2 week vote.

4 Discuss the SPML and SAML question DR posed to the SJC in [2]
DR Want to explore if there is comment from the SJC that this is potentially a good thing.
CA Is this a request-response protocol issue or generating new SAML Statements?
DR Both. We would extend the request-response protocol and create new Statements.
HL Statement reuse encouraged by the SSTC. Lots of benefits in implantation technology too.
HL PG might want to review signature validity issues, may be useful information. Search SSTC list archive for details - topic along the lines of "inclusive canonical representation".
PG Note that XCBF does not use the W3C XMLDSIG digital signature techniques based on the W3C
XSD schema.
PG XCBF uses the ASN.1 schema from X9.84 for its XML markup and relies on the same signature
processing techniques currently in widespread use today in the IETF SMIME Cryptographic
Message Syntax standard for binary data.

PG XCBF signature processing does not depend on either the inclusive or exclusive canonical
representation standards from the W3C, so that potential XML processing problems associated
with these specifications can be avoided by XCBF by base64 armoring XCBF messages to make
them opaque when embedded in XML documents just as is currently done today for other ASN.1
based security objects such as CRLs and X.509 certificates.
HL Stated that he had only wanted one signature method for XML. (PG) replied that we already
had two - one for ASN.1 schema based message objects such as CRLs and X.609 Certificates, and another more complex method for arbitrary XML documents, XMLDSIG.

5 Discuss proposed SJC charter text
PG Make the "security interoperabiliy model" goal a working document available from the JC. When completed, the SJC could consider making this an actual JC deliverable.
PG JC discussed the two proposals made some minor changes and additions.
DR To summarize comments on (DR) and (MM) proposals and send new draft to list for email vote before the next meeting (AI).
HL Note it is one vote per TC not one vote per participant
PG When Monica's two proposed items (1) and (2) are amended and agreed, the SJC will propose these to the TAB for consideration as applicable to ALL OASIS TCs.

6 Report on WS-1 conference
KB Everything looks good.
HL Did the issue get resolved re Prateek presenting slides fro PSTC and XCBF?
DR Sent slides for PSTC. (DR) to sent this template and contact details to (PG) so he might do the same for XCBF.

7 Other business - SJC Participation
HL Is the charter is now done, how do we open SJC participation to liaison representatives from other TC's?
PG As soon as the Charter is published yes. Based on Karls recommendation, PG will send a note to the chairs alias offering liaison to the SJC (AI).

8 Adjournment
  Meeting adjourned at 13:03 EDT to reconvene September 3rd at 9 am EDT

 

Action Items & Motions

  Owner Action Item
1 DR To summarize charter comments and send new draft to list for email vote before the next meeting
2 PG Based on Karls recommendation, PG to send a note to the chairs alias offering liaison to the SJC.

  Motions  
PG Motion to accept minutes of committee meeting 08-08-2002 Passed unanimously
PG Motion to adjourned and reconvene August 22nd at 9 noon EDT. Passed unanimously

References

[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security-jc/minutes/minutes08-08-2002.html
[2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/security-jc/200208/msg00011.html
[3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/security-jc/200208/msg00017.html