[ggf-ogsa-sec-wg] Policy and Trust Implementer's Workshop Invitation

[Nataraj Nagaratnam <natarajn@us.ibm.com>]

Following the WS-I Basic Profile WG meeting February 4 - 6 in Redmond, WA,
authors of the recently-published WS-Policy, WS-Trust and
WS-SecureConversations specifications will host a one-day meeting on
February 7, 8am to 5pm, to discuss these and related specifications
(WS-PolicyAssertions, WS-Policy Attachment and WS-SecurityPolicy) and
general thoughts about the problem spaces addressed.

This is an ad-hoc, open forum for 1) SPECIFICATION AUTHORS to share
background information on the design of the specifications and to receive
feedback and 2) SOFTWARE VENDORS to discuss their ideas about the
practicality of implementing these and related Web Services specifications.


We'd like this to be an open meeting and collect a broad range of ideas. If
you are interested in participating in the discussions, please reply to
this mail and we will make sure that there is space for you.

The agenda is currently flexible. We will include presentations on the
named specifications and welcome discussions of others. We anticipate a
good discussion on these and welcome suggestions for other items to be
included in the agenda. This should give us a good opportunity to discuss
the appropriate factoring of the needed work in this area and the
appropriate scope for key technical workgroups and specifications.

The authors of the WS-Policy, WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversations,
WS-PolicyAssertions, WS-Policy Attachment and WS-SecurityPolicy
Specifications intend to submit revised versions of these specifications to
a standards body with a commitment to grant a royalty-free license to their
necessary patents.  We need assurance that your feedback and discussions
are consistent with that goal.  (You will need to sign the following
agreement as part of registration at the meeting):

The specifications listed above (“Specifications”) are expected to be
discussed as part of this workshop.  You are not required to provide any
comments or input (“Comments”) on these Specifications, but any Comments
you do provide may be incorporated into these Specifications.  By signing
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Please reply to Sarah Jamieson (sarahj@microsoft.com)