Members of the IETF SIPPING Working Group have published an updated draft defining SPIT authorization documents that use SAML. The problem of SPAM for Internet Telephony (SPIT) is an imminent challenge and only the combination of several techniques can provide a framework for dealing with unwanted communication. The responsibility for filtering or blocking calls can belong to different elements in the call flow and may depend on various factors.

Liberty Alliance announced that products from Hewlett-Packard, IBM, RSA (The Security Division of EMC), Sun Microsystems, and Symlabs, Inc. have passed Liberty Alliance testing for SAML 2.0 interoperability. SAML Version 2.0 was approved as an OASIS Standard in March 2005. Products and services passing SAML 2.0 interoperability testing included: Hewlett-Packard's HP Select Federation 7.0; IBM's Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, version 6.2; RSA's Federated Identity Manager 4.0; Sun Microsystems' Java System Federated Access Manager 8.0; Symlabs Inc's Federated Identity Suite version 3.3.0.

Yesterday, I posted this recent brief article..(Draft) Technical Comparison: OpenID and SAML
..and document..draft-hodges-saml-openid-compare-05.html
..that folks who read these pages may find interesting.

OASIS announced that the Security Services (SAML) Technical Committee has released five approved Committee Draft specifications for public review. These specifications are followon deliverables to SAML version 2.0.

OASIS announced that the Security Services (SAML) Technical Committee has released five approved Committee Draft specifications for public review. These specifications are followon deliverables to SAML version 2.0.