REST Profile of #XACML v3.0 Version 1.0 Committee Specification 02 published

30 Dec 2014

OASIS is pleased to announce the approval and publication of a new Committee Specification by the members of the OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC:

REST Profile of XACML v3.0 Version 1.0
Committee Specification 02
23 November 2014

Overview:

This specification defines a profile for the use of XACML in a RESTful architecture.

Description of the TC:

The XACML Technical Committee defines a core XML schema for representing authorization and entitlement policies.

URIs:
The prose specifications and related files are available here:

Editable source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/xacml-rest/v1.0/cs02/xacml-rest-v1.0-cs02.doc

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/xacml-rest/v1.0/cs02/xacml-rest-v1.0-cs02.html

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/xacml-rest/v1.0/cs02/xacml-rest-v1.0-cs02.pdf

Distribution ZIP file

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/xacml/xacml-rest/v1.0/cs02/xacml-rest-v1.0-cs02.zip

Members of the OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC [1] approved this specification by Special Majority Vote. The specification had been released for public review as required by the TC Process [2]. The vote to approve as a Committee Specification passed [3], and the document is now available online in the OASIS Library as referenced above.

Our congratulations to the TC on achieving this milestone and our thanks to the reviewers who provided feedback on the specification drafts to help improve the quality of the work.

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

[1] OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/

[2] Public reviews:
– 30-day public review, 13 December 2012: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201212/msg00005.html

– 15 day public review, 04 March 2013: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201303/msg00000.html

– 15 day public review, 25 September 2014: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/201409/msg00025.html
– Comment resolution log: http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/xacml-rest/v1.0/csprd03/xacml-rest-v1.0-csprd03-comment-resolution-log.txt

[3] Approval ballot:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=2715

The work of OASIS is supported by organizations from around the world. Members include: