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Call to Vote: Ballot for OASIS Standard – XACML V3.0

The OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC members [1] have approved submitting the following Candidate OASIS Standard to the OASIS membership to a membership vote for OASIS Standard:

eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) Version 3.0
Candidate OASIS Standard 01
26 September 2012

This is a call to the primary or alternate representatives of OASIS Organizational Members to vote. This Committee Specification was approved by the Technical Committee and was submitted for the required 60-day public review. All requirements of the OASIS TC Process having been met, the Candidate OASIS Standard is now submitted to the voting representatives of OASIS organizational members.

— Voting Details —

The ballot opens at 00:00 am U.S. eastern time on 08 January 2013 and closes at 11:59 pm U.S. eastern time on 22 January 2013. You can access the ballot to cast your vote at:

Internal OASIS link: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/voting/ballot.php?id=2339
Publicly visible link: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=2339

The minimum number of affirmative votes required to approve this ballot is 48 (15% of 316).

Each OASIS organizational member has one vote. OASIS members should ensure that their organization’s voting representative votes according to the organization’s wishes. If you do not know the name of your organization’s voting representative is, go to the My Account page at

http://www.oasis-open.org/members/user_tools

then click the link for your Company (at the top of the page) and review the list of users for the name designated as “Primary”.

— Information about the Candidate OASIS Standard and the OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC —

eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) defines a core XML schema for representing authorization and entitlement policies. This Candidate OASIS Standard specifies version 3.0 of the extensible access control markup language. More information on XACML can be found at the TC’s home page.

— URIs —

The prose specification document and related files are available here:

Editable source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/3.0/xacml-3.0-core-spec-cos01-en.doc

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/3.0/xacml-3.0-core-spec-cos01-en.html

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/3.0/xacml-3.0-core-spec-cos01-en.pdf

XML schema:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/3.0/xacml-core-v3-schema-wd-17.xsd

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/xacml/3.0/xacml-3.0-core-spec-cos01-en.zip

— Additional information —

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

TC Charter:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/charter.php

TC FAQ:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/faq.php

[2] Statements of Use:
Oracle Corporation:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/201208/msg00038.html

Quest Softward:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/201208/msg00041.html

Axiomatics AB:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/201208/msg00042.html

ViewDS Identity Solutions:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/201208/msg00043.html

Forgerock:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/201209/msg00006.html