The OASIS Security Services TC recently has approved the following
specification(s) as Committee Draft(s) and approved the package for public review.

- Metadata Profile for the OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
- SAML Attribute Sharing Profile for X.509 Authentication-Based Systems
- SAML XPath Attribute Profile
- SAML Metadata Extension for Query Requesters
- SAML Protocol Extension for Third-Party Requests

The public review starts today, 11 May 2006, and ends 10 July 2006. This is an open invitation to comment.

Public review from potential users, developers and stakeholders is an important part of the OASIS process to assure interoperability and quality.
Comments are solicited from all interested parties. Please feel free to distribute this announcement within your organization and to other appropriate mail lists.

More non-normative information about the specification and the technical committee may be found at the public home page of the TC at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=security. Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person, by a web-form that can be reached either on that page, via the button marked "Send A Comment" at the top of that page, or directly at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=security.

Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that TC) are publicly archived and can be viewed at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/security-services-comment/. All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, to assure that the comment may be freely re-used by the TC; the license terms can be found on the comment web-form.

The specification document and related files are available here:

1. Metadata Profile for the OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language
(SAML) V1.x
PDF:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18043/sstc-saml1x-metadata-cd-01.pdf
HTML:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18045/sstc-saml1x-metadata-cd-01.html
OpenDocument:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18046/sstc-saml1x-metadata-cd-01.odt
Schema:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18048/sstc-saml1x-metadata.xsd

2. SAML Attribute Sharing Profile for X.509 Authentication-Based Systems
PDF:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18058/sstc-saml-x509-authn-attrib-profile-cd-02.pdf
HTML:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18056/sstc-saml-x509-authn-attrib-profile-cd-02.html
OpenDocument:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18057/sstc-saml-x509-authn-attrib-profile-cd-02.odt

3. SAML XPath Attribute Profile
PDF:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18061/sstc-saml-xpath-attribute-profile-cd-01.pdf
HTML:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18059/sstc-saml-xpath-attribute-profile-cd-01.html
OpenDocument:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18060/sstc-saml-xpath-attribute-profile-cd-01.odt
Schema:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18063/sstc-saml-xpath-attribute-profile.xsd

4. SAML Metadata Extension for Query Requesters
PDF:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18052/sstc-saml-metadata-ext-query-cd-01.pdf
HTML:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18050/sstc-saml-metadata-ext-query-cd-01.html
OpenDocument:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18051/sstc-saml-metadata-ext-query-cd-01.odt
Schema:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18062/sstc-saml-metadata-ext-query.xsd

5. SAML Protocol Extension for Third-Party Requests
PDF:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18055/sstc-saml-protocol-ext-thirdparty-cd-01.pdf
HTML:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18053/sstc-saml-protocol-ext-thirdparty-cd-01.html
OpenDocument:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18054/sstc-saml-protocol-ext-thirdparty-cd-01.odt

OASIS and the Security Services Technical Committee welcome your comments.