XML Key Management Working Group

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Chair(s):

Stephen Farrell <[email protected]>,

Shivaram Mysore <[email protected]>

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Mission Statement

The mission of this working group is to develop a specification of XML application/protocol that allows a simple client to obtain key information (values, certificates, management or trust data) from a web service. This specification will be based on the XML Key Management Specification (XKMS). Please see the Charter for further information on the constitution of this WG. This WG does not address broader XML security issues. This WG has successfully advanced all chartered deliverables to their final state. The charter of this WG will expire in December 2005. This remaining period is allocated for maintenance of the XKMS 2.0 specifications and publication of two complementary notes; presently the mailing list may be used to ask questions about the specifications or interop report.

If you want to join, or are new to the Working Group you should understand how to contribute, how to work with the chair, when the next meeting is, and catch up on some background reading. Otherwise, just start participating on the list!

Current Deliverables

XML Key Management Requirements (Published as NOTE)

• http://www.w3.org/TR/xkms2-req
• Last Call issue list

XML Key Management Specification (Published as a W3C Recommendation 28 June 2005)

• http://www.w3.org/TR/xkms2/
• http://www.w3.org/TR/xkms2-bindings/
• Errata

XKMS application interoperability (done for Candidate Recommendation)

• XKMS Assertions and Test Suite Collection
• Interoperability wbs online report form and results (requires a public or member W3C password). The interop period ended the 25 January, 2005. If you don't have such a password, a formatted copy of the results is also available.
• Interoperability report summary
• Request for moving XKMS to Proposed Recommendation

Complementary Working Group Notes

• A WSDL 1.1 description for XKMS (18 November 2005)
• Using XKMS with PGP (19 December 2005)

See previous deliverables for proposals and previous drafts, and interoperability matrices and histories if applicable.

Public Code & Toolkits

If you would like to appear in this list, send an announcement to the XKMS public mailing list.

The XKMS 2.0 implementations below are those which have taken part in interoperability testing:

• There is an Entrust XKMS2.0 validation server here.
• The SQLData XKMS2.0 server is here. A client release is planned.
• Trinity College Dublin have an XKMS client implementation (not yet released; more info from Guillermo.)
• Tommy Lindberg has an XKMS server. A client also exists.
• Apache Software Foundation's XML Security C++ Library. Version 1.2 provides support for XKMS X-KISS and has a client tool for generating and sending XKMS messages to servers, dumping the results to screen, which may be useful to people.
• Oracle has an XKMS 2.0 implementation that will be available as part of the Oracle Application Server 10gR2.

The following was the list of XKMS1.0 implementations:

• VeriSign XKMS toolkit (java)
• Entrust XKMS toolkit (java) (deprecated)
• Poupou XKMS toolkit (.NET)
• Microsoft XKMS client and server sample code (ASP.NET)

Meetings and Teleconferences

Minutes are generally produced in accordance with IETF Minute Policy. The important things to capture are open issues, proposals and their benefits/detriments, polls, resolution, and resulting action items.

Face-to-Face Announce and Minutes

• 19 July 2001, XKMS Workshop:position papers - zipped version; slides; minutes
• 09 December 2001,XKMS Face-to-Face #1 (in conjunction with Salt Lake City IETF)[Logistics & Agenda, Minutes]
• 23 April 2002, XKMS Face-to-Face#2 (in conjuction with NIST's PKI Research Workshop) [Logistics, Minutes]
• 06 September 2002, XKMS Face-to-Face#3 (in conjunction with OASIS WSS TC) [Logistics, Minutes]

Telecon Minutes

Optional teleconferences happen as required. See the archive for the latest teleconference announcement. Minutes are posted to the list; WG members are obligated to review, correct, or counter any proposals or consensus achieved on the call on the list.

• 14 November 2001 telephone conference
• 23 January 2002 telephone conference
• 13 March 2002 telephone conference
• 10 July 2002 telephone conference
• 01 October 2002 telephone conference
• 07 November 2002 telephone conference
• 14 November 2002 telephone conference
• 21 November 2002 telephone conference
• 05 December 2002 telephone conference
• 12 December 2002 telephone conference
• 19 December 2002 telephone conference
• 14 March 2003 telephone conference
• 27 March 2003 telephone conference
• 10 April 2003 telephone conference
• 24 April 2003 telephone conference
• 28 May 2003 telephone conference
• 30th July 2003 telephone conference
• 6th August 2003 telephone conference
• 13th August 2003 telephone conference
• 27th August 2003 telephone conference
• 18th December 2003 telephone conference

Interop related meetings/calls:

• 25th February 2004 telephone conference
• 30th March 2004 telephone conference
• 13 April 2004 telephone conference
• 27 April 2004 telephone conference
• 11 May 2004 telephone conference
• 25 May 2004 telephone conference
• 8 June 2004 telephone conference
• 22 June 2004 telephone conference
• 06 July 2004 telephone conference
• 20 July 2004 telephone conference
• 03 August 2004 telephone conference
• 17 August 2004 telephone conference
• 31 August 2004 telephone conference
• 14 September 2004 telephone conference
• 28 September 2004 telephone conference
• 12 October 2004 telephone conference
• 26 October 2004 telephone conference
• 9 November 2004 telephone conference
• 23 November 2004 telephone conference
• 7 December 2004 telephone conference
• 11 January 2005 telephone conference
• 25 January 2005 telephone conference
• 22 February 2005 telephone conference
• 8 March 2005 telephone conference
• 22 March 2005 telephone conference
• 5 July 2005 telephone conference
• 4 October 2005 telephone conference

Chair Responsibilities

Any technical question, proposal, or discussion must be distributed to the list. An email to a Chair that does not include the list in the distribution may be considered private correspondence and might not be added to the agenda for WG consideration; we need public records of proposals, consideration, and re-consideration as we move forward in achieving a group consensus.

Background

Required Reading

• The XKMS Submission to W3C

Optional Reading

• W3C: Process Document and Guidebook for Working Group Chairs
• Reagle: workstyle.

Last revised by $Author smysore $ on $Date: Friday 18 November 2005 - 16:59:20$

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