Public Review - SAML V2.0 Implementation Profile for Federation Interoperability

[Walter Forbes Hoehn (wassa)]

The InCommon Federation Interoperability Working Group has recently completed a draft specification, entitled "SAML V2.0 Implementation Profile for Federation Interoperability," and is submitting it for a three week period of public review. The introductory text from the specification provides an explanation of the subject matter:

  "This document encompasses a set of software conformance requirements intended to facilitate interoperability within the context of full mesh identity federations, such as those found in the research and education sector. It attempts to address a number of common barriers to interoperability and details features that are necessary in order to use SAML metadata as a foundation for scalable trust fabrics."

  "The material contained herein is intended for use by implementers of SAML software. It does not specify a fixed set of behaviors for all deployments, but rather serves as a complement to deployment profiles (such as the Kantara SAML2int profile) by identifying a standard set of software capabilities necessary for scalable federation. It is hoped that this profile will form the basis for testing frameworks capable of providing for the validation of conformant software packages."

The draft specification can be found here: (http://walterhoehn.com/dl/SAML-Impl-Profile/rendered/main.html).

Feedback is welcome and should be forwarded to (fed-interop-wg at incommon.org). All comments must be received by February 15 in order to be considered. Any who are interested in participating in the evaluation of collected feedback or engaging in extended discussion should send a request to (nroy at internet2.edu) or (wassa at memphis.edu) asking to be added to the WG mailing list.

Walter Hoehn
Chair, InCommon Federation Interoperability Working Group