[wg-all] New document published: OGSA⢠Basic Security Profile 1.0-- Core

[Greg Newby]

This Draft Recommendation document has been published as GFD #086:

Title: OGSA(TM)¢ Basic Security Profile 1.0-- Core

Authors: T. Mori, F. Siebenlist
 
Please visit this link to download it:
  http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?final

Abstract: The growing number of Web services specifications makes it
important to understand and define the interaction and use of these
specifications to ensure interoperability.  In the wider technical
domain of distributed system management and grid computing, the OGSA
WSRF Basic Profile 1.0 [OGSA WSRF Basic Profile] provides the first
normative profile, addressing issues regarding the addressing,
modeling and management of WS-Resources, but it does not address the
details of the security aspects of interoperability issues.

Therefore, in order to ensure the secure and interoperable interaction
of Web services in the context of distributed resource management and
grid computing, we define here the OGSA Basic Security Profile 1.0 â
Core, a profile which is intended to be used along with one of the
OGSA Basic Profiles, such as the OGSA WSRF Basic Profile 1.0 [OGSA
WSRF Basic Profile].

The OGSA Basic Security Profile 1.0 -- Core described in this document
is an OGSA Recommended Profile as Proposed Recommendation, as defined
in the OGSA Profile Definition [OGSA Profile Definition].  The OGSA
Basic Security Profile 1.0 â Core describes uses of widely accepted
specifications that have been found to enable interoperability.  The
specification considered in this profile is the basic Web services
specification which is used to enable addressing of resources:
WS-Addressing 1.0 [WS-Addressing].  The requirements stated in the
profile are concerned with binding of key information to an endpoint
reference; the profile defines a core security profile which is
considered to be common to all OGSA services to ensure security in an
inherently unsafe environment such as the Internet.

Thanks to the authors/editors for work on this document. 
  -- Greg Newby, OGF Editor