ITI XUA Extension
History
Detailed proposal
XUA Extension detailed proposal November 20, 2009
Use Cases
- Role-Based-Access Control: Need to specify a fuller vocabulary of attributes needed for access control decisions.
- Consent/Authorization: Need to carry an indicator of BPPC document that is relevant to the transaction
- Level Of Assurance for (a) the authentication event, and/or (b) the provisioning of the account
- Extended Audit Logging: Support descriptive identifiers to support environments where post-processing doesn’t have access to directory for id translation into description.
- Purpose-of-Use: Carry in the assertion purpose-of-use, including support for Break-Glass / Emergency-Mode-Access
- Relationship-to-Patient: Carry the indicator of the patient, relationship to patient, location of patient
Supplement for Public Comment
Security Assessment
Plan
- Evaluate the content of the Resources for how well they address the above Use-Cases
- Discover new vocabulary that may be used for the above Use-Cases
- Further develop the Use-Cases that can be resolved in the next few months, drop the use-cases that do not have mature standards available.
- Write up likely use-cases for review at First T-Con (Feb 26, 2010)
- Evaluate the use-cases and create logical groupings into Options
- Write up logical grouping Options with pointers to likely standards solutions
- Review at Second T-Con (March 19, 2010)
- Take action items from Second T-Con for Third T-Con (April 9, 2010)
Resources
OASIS XSPA - SAML
OASIS SAML Assurance Profile Draft
epSOS Experience with XSPA
NHIN Messaging Framework, Authorization Framework
Notes
Current NHIN specifications Return to ITI Technical Committee