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OASIS Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) Roadmap Committee Working Draft 0.1 14 May 2003 Document identifier: draft-pstc-roadmap-01.doc Location: /committees/provision/docs/ Send comments to: pstc-comment@ Editor: Rami Elron, BMC Contributors: Doron Cohen, BMCDarran Rolls, Waveset Technologies Abstract: This document portrays concepts, objectives and major milestones of the SPML roadmap plan. Status: This version of the specification is a working draft of the committee. As such, it is expected to change prior to adoption as an OASIS standard. If you are on the provision list for committee members, send comments there. If you are not on that list, subscribe to the provision-comment@ list and send comments there. To subscribe, send an email message to provision-comment-request@ with the word subscribe as the body of the message. Copyright (C) OASIS Open 2002. All Rights Reserved.Table of contents 1. Introduction 4 2. Provisioning – so far 4 3. A vision for provisioning 4 4. More on SPML data and verb mapping 9 Appendix A. References 12 Appendix B. Acknowledgments 13 Appendix C. Revision history 14 Appendix D. Notices 15  Introduction Over the last couple of years, we have witnessed a steady and significant increase in the importance of provisioning. The term known by very few not too long ago is by now an important piece in the enterprise IT jigsaw, and provisioning software proves to be an indispensable tool for supporting and monitoring daily business operations in the burgeoning marketplace. Having said that, the utilization of provisioning applications in organizations is merely a first step towards realizing the enormous potential provisioning promises. Its importance is mostly evidenced in managing internal company data, but we approach the point where provisioning services are required on a much broader scale. The significance attributed to global digital identity, web services and secured access to such services is a testament to this tren