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#SAML Conformance Clause for AS4/ebMS Version 1.0 published by #OASIS

We are pleased to announce the approval and publication of a new Committee Specification by the members of the OASIS ebXML Messaging Services TC:

SAML Conformance Clause for AS4/ebMS Version 1.0
Committee Specification 01
30 January 2014

Overview:

The Committee Specification describes how an ebMS3/AS4 MSH can support SAML in addition to the username/password and X.509 token profiles of WS-Security for authentication. It defines the use of SAML in ebMS3 and applies that to the scenarios addressed by AS4.

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

Editable source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ebxml-msg/ebms-v3.0-saml-conformance/v1.0/cs01/ebms-v3.0-saml-conformance-v1.0-cs01.doc

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ebxml-msg/ebms-v3.0-saml-conformance/v1.0/cs01/ebms-v3.0-saml-conformance-v1.0-cs01.html

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ebxml-msg/ebms-v3.0-saml-conformance/v1.0/cs01/ebms-v3.0-saml-conformance-v1.0-cs01.pdf

Distribution ZIP files

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of each prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP files here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ebxml-msg/ebms-v3.0-saml-conformance/v1.0/cs01/ebms-v3.0-saml-conformance-v1.0-cs01.zip

Members of the ebXML Messaging Services TC [1] requested a Special Majority Vote to approve this specification as a Committee Specification. 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 approved CS01 is now available online in the OASIS Library as referenced above.

Our congratulations to the TC on achieving this milestone.

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

[1] ebXML Messaging Services
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-msg/

[2] Public reviews:
30-day public review, 10 October 2013: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201310/msg00003.html
– Comment resolution log: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ebxml-msg/ebms-v3.0-saml-conformance/v1.0/csprd01/ebms-v3.0-saml-conformance-v1.0-csprd01-comment-resolution-log.doc

[3] Approval ballot:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=2564