“An hour or so ago Sun Microsystems made good on an earlier
pledge to issue further ‘non-assertion covenants’ (NACs) in support
of open standards. In doing so, Sun has taken an important step in
helping propagate and popularize a useful new tool to facilitate
the implementation of open standards. The new NAC appears here, and
relates to the OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) V2.0
standard. Simultaneously, Sun is announcing a separate NAC relating
to two other specifications co-developed with Microsoft: Web Single
Sign-on Metadata Exchange Protocol and Web Single Sign-on
Interoperability Profile.“These new NACs are modeled on the earlier commitment delivered
by Sun to OASIS in connection with ODF…”