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30-day Public Review for Identity in the Cloud PaaS Profile V1.0

The OASIS Identity in the Cloud TC [1] members have recently approved a Committee Note Draft (CND) and submitted this specification for 30-day public review:

Identity in the Cloud PaaS Profile Version 1.0
Committee Note Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
29 April 2013

Specification Overview:

This ID-Cloud Profile Document describes the various Identity Management use cases, challenges and applicable standards in the Cloud Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS) model.

TC Description :

The OASIS IDCloud TC works to address the serious security challenges posed by identity management in cloud computing. The TC identifies gaps in existing identity management standards and investigates the need for profiles to achieve interoperability within current standards. It performs risk and threat analyses on collected use cases and produces guidelines for mitigating vulnerabilities.

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 15 May 2013 at 00:00 GMT and ends 14 June 2013 at 23:59 GMT.

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/id-cloud/IDCloud-paas/v1.0/cnprd01/IDCloud-paas-v1.0-cnprd01.odt

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/id-cloud/IDCloud-paas/v1.0/cnprd01/IDCloud-paas-v1.0-cnprd01.html

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/id-cloud/IDCloud-paas/v1.0/cnprd01/IDCloud-paas-v1.0-cnprd01.pdf

ZIP distribution file (complete):

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/id-cloud/IDCloud-paas/v1.0/cnprd01/IDCloud-paas-v1.0-cnprd01.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS Identity in the Cloud TC can be found at the TC’s public home page:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/id-cloud/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be used by following the instructions on the “Send A Comment” page or at:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=id-cloud

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

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/id-cloud-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 “Identity in the Cloud PaaS Profile Version 1.0”, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2] applicable especially [3] 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 Identity in the Cloud TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/id-cloud

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

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/id-cloud/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#s10.2.3
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