Re: [scim] New charter - strawman draft

[Quint Daenen <[e-mail]>]

Hi Darran

Thank you for writing out this draft proposal and starting up a discussion.
See you on Thursday 25th.

Regards
Quint Daenen
LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/quint-daenen/> | GitHub 
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On 15.06.20 14:11, Darran Rolls wrote:
>
> In readiness for our interest group call on Thursday at 11am central 
> US time, I wanted to throw out a strawman charter statement.  Please 
> review and comment here first:
>
> The System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) working group 
> is being re-chartered to extend the current SCIM 2.0 specification, 
> further refine its operational capabilities, and enhance the 
> standardization of methods for creating, reading, searching, 
> modifying, and deleting user identities and identity-related objects 
> across
> administrative domains.  The goal of this renewed effort is to further 
> the operational simplification of an expanded set of common tasks 
> related to user identity management in services and applications in a 
> growing ecosystem.
>
> The word "Standardize" does not mean that the working group will 
> develop new technologies.  Specifically this working group with look 
> to build upon the existing SCIM 2.0 specification rather than defining 
> any new protocol elements. The groups new work will be focused on 
> delivering operational protocol enhancements and extending the schema 
> definitions to cover more managed objects and endpoints.  To better 
> support the growing number of commercial and open source 
> implementations of SCIM 2.0, this effort will also focus on delivering 
> new capabilities targeted at  promoting interoperability and enabling 
> the verification and testing of different implementations.
>
> The SCIM working group will initially be directed towards operational 
> protocol enhancements and new schema definitions in the following areas:
>
>   * Multi-value paging & cursor pagination
>   * Relying party user provisioning
>   * Soft Delete
>   * Extended HR /user data and related action events
>   * Ratification of extensions to address Privilege Account Management
>     user cases
>
> It will follow this work by considering extensions to the protocol and 
> operational model that address the verification the establishment and 
> interoperability between implementations.  When and where necessary, 
> the group will modify and enhance the existing SCIM 2.0 schema and 
> REST-based protocol, but will do so with a focus on backwards 
> compatibility and the goal of adding to rather than breaking an 
> existing SCIM 2.0 implementation.  However, where enhanced 
> interoperability and streamlined operations are necessary, changes may 
> be specified that require updates to an implementation to remain 
> interoperable with this new work.
>
> Finally, the working group will continue to ensure that the SCIM 
> protocol embodies good security practices. Given both the sensitivity 
> of the information being conveyed in SCIM messages and the regulatory 
> requirements regarding the privacy of personally identifiable 
> information, the working group will continue to pay particular 
> attention to issues around authorization, authenticity, and privacy 
> and consider new features targeted at enhanced security for the protocol.
>
> -- 
>
> Darran Rolls
>
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