[ogsa-wg] [ogsa-authn-bof] Notes from Joint OGSA WG AuthN/AuthZ call

[Blair Dillaway]

I don't remember any serious discussion of chartering work in this area, either within the AuthZ WG or elsewhere. So I can only surmise people haven't felt this area is adequately mature. The sessions Von hosted on Grid-Shib technology at OGF's last year certainly indicated a diverse set of approaches were being explored.

Did you and Von discuss this in drafting the current charter? Do you believe things have evolved to the point where we could build critical mass around work in this area? (Of course, I'd love to hear from anyone who thinks the OGF should be doing work in this area.)

Regards,
Blair


David Chadwick wrote:
>
> Hi Blair
>
> Interestingly there is one aspect of authz that has a significant
> amount
> of user interest and that is merging attributes from Shibboleth and
> Grids to be used together for authz decision making. But this is
> currently not within the scope of the OGF OGSA Authz group's work plan.
> So what does this indicate?
>
> regards
>
> David
>
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