Our Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure (EKMI) Technical Committee (TC) has finally been approved by OASIS to release our specification to the public.

Symmetric Key Services Markup Language (SKSML) Version 1.0 public review started July 24 2008 and will end 23 September 2008.

Comments may be submitted to our TC by anyone on the OASIS TC comment system .

Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that TC) are
publicly archived. Please note that comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members.

The specification document and related files are available here:

Editable Source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ekmi/sksml/v1.0/pr01/SKSML-1.0-Specification.odt

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ekmi/sksml/v1.0/pr01/SKSML-1.0-Specification.pdf

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ekmi/sksml/v1.0/pr01/SKSML-1.0-Specification.html

Schema:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ekmi/sksml/v1.0/pr01/schema/

Abstract:
This normative specification defines the first (1.0) version of the Symmetric Key Services Markup Language (SKSML), an XML-based messaging protocol, by which applications executing on computing devices may request and receive symmetric key-management services from centralized key-management servers, securely, over networks. Applications using SKSML are expected to either implement the SKSML protocol, or use a software library – called the Symmetric Key Client Library (SKCL) – that implements this protocol. SKSML messages are transported within a SOAP layer, protected by a Web Services Security (WSS) header and can be used over standard HTTP securely.