[OGSA-AUTHZ] OGSA-Authz-WG draft meeting minutes: OGF Jan 29 session

[Valerio Venturi]

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:10 +0000, David Chadwick wrote:
 
> > * VOMS profile Discussed on Oct 16 telecon - minutes on list Meaning
> > of the primary type must be explicit rather than implicit (as 
> > currently done via sequence) Awaiting response from VOMS group
What we haven't understood so far is why an explicit primary attribute
is needed rather then an implicit one and what needs an eventual change
in VOMS AC format would address.

> > * Attribute Retrieval Protocol Added as last meeting OASIS profile
> > for SAML - Tom Scavo author
> > 
> > * Von Welch resignation as WG chair Those who are interesting in
> > replacing Von should send email to David
> > 
> > * Other business Tom Scavo: Do we need mechanism to bind SAML to
> > X.509 (equivalent to VOMS)? David: 2005 X.509 has specification for
> > binding XML to X.509, but doesn't specify XML content Tom Scavo to
> > investigate how these relate.
Shouldn't this be done by SubjectConfirmation? Or are you talking about
assertions travelling within X.509 proxies?

> David: VOMS is providing a standard SAML protocol interface for picking
> up VOMS attributes. A beta is supposed to be ready by April 2007
That's correct David. The protocol is that in SAML V2.0 Profiles for
X.509 Subject as agreed. We are about to work on the implementation of
the protocol and we will eventually inform Tom and the authors about any
issue we may have. Hope it won't be too late by that time but we
couldn't make it before.

Valerio

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