OASIS Security Services TC & SAML
  • OASIS promotes SGML/XML-based standards

  • Security Services TC
    • Established January 2001
    • Participants mostly "web access management" vendors
    •   ... and PKI vendors
    • mix of "web apps" folks and security folks, ~50 in all
    • Summer 2001 targets for final docs ...

  • Standardize XML-based "security assertions"
    • "Security Assertions Markup Language" (SAML)
    • Web SSO scenarios, especially inter-domain
    • B2B scenarios
    • Random XML-based protocols scenarios
    • XML-based syntax assumed ...
    • Main inputs: S2ML (Netegrity), AuthXML (Securant)

  • http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/

Internet2 Shibboleth, OASIS Security Services
50th
IETF, March 2001
RL "Bob" Morgan, rlmorgan@ washington.edu