Who will benefit from XACML and how?
Every developer, user, or maintainer of applications that require secure authorization will benefit. • What has the OASIS XACML TC produced to date? In February of 2003, the OASIS membership at-large approved XACML version 1.0 as an OASIS Standard. In August of 2003, the OASIS XACML TC approved XACML Version 1.1 as an OASIS Committee Specification. As this version contained only clarifications and minor changes, and did not change the Version 1.0 schemas, it was not submitted for consideration as an OASIS Standard. In February of 2005, XACML version 2.0 was approved as an OASIS Standard, along with six profiles of XACML: SAML 2.0, XML Digital Signature, Privacy Policy, Hierarchical Resource, Multiple Resource, and Core and Hierarchical Role Based Access Control (RBAC). Links to these documents are available at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xacml. • How does this work compare with related standards efforts? No other standard access control language written i
