Date Published: August 2016
Comments Due: September 30, 2016 (public comment period is CLOSED)
Email Questions to:
nsticworkshop@nist.gov
NIST invites comments on Draft NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 8112, Attribute Metadata. This report proposes a schema intended to convey information about a subject's attribute(s) to allow for a relying party (RP) to:
The schema can be used by relying parties to enrich access control policies, as well as during runtime evaluation of an individual's ability to access protected resources. We opted to publish this document as a NISTIR in an effort to treat it as an implementers' draft, an approach common in the development lifecycle of many private sector standards and specifications. This allows the developer and policy community, in both the public and private sectors, to apply some or all of the metadata in this NISTIR on a volunteer basis, and provide us with practical feedback gained through implementation experience. As such, we will be maintaining the public issues page beyond the initial 60-day period to continually receive input and iteratively improve the document in anticipation of a second revision.
Submitting Comments
Commenters are STRONGLY encouraged to publicly collaborate with the team and other participants via the GitHub pages for NISTIR 8112. We have posted details on how to submit comments on GitHub. Additionally, we are providing a PDF for offline reading, as well as a traditional comment matrix for those that prefer this approach.
All comments, regardless of how they are provided to NIST, will be made public as a GitHub "issue."
Access Control; Identification and Authentication
Publication:
Draft NISTIR 8112 (HTML on GitHub)
Supplemental Material:
How to Submit Comments (GitHub)
Draft NISTIR 8112 (PDF) (pdf)
Comment Template (xlsx)
Submitted issues (GitHub)
Related NIST Publications:
Document History:
08/01/16: IR 8112 (Draft)