White Paper

This document summarises a number of security services which may be important within a workflow system and relates them to a generalised model identifying different security domains within a heterogeneous workflow environment. It then identifies areas of potential work for the WfMC, concentrating on Workflow interoperability between different organisational domains.

This document contains a proposed approach for classifying and handling the processing associated with Events. It includes proposals for extensions to I/Fs 1, 2/3 and 4 (and potentially audit data which may be associated with particular event occurrences). It builds upon the proposals originally made by Steve Dworkin (May 1998) and earlier draft notes from Klaus Dieter Kreplin, Dave Holllingsworth and Mike Anderson.

This document is intended as the foundation stone for measuring conformance of implementations brought to the market by workflow product vendors against the intended semantics laid out in the standards and interface/binding specifications published by the Workflow Management Coalition.

Open Standards are only relevant to the market if products exhibit the appropriate behaviors in those areas in which they claim conformance. In order that companies making purchasing decisions can use conformance statements as a buying criteria, those statements need to be both credible and meaningful. This document is intended to provide a basis for:

conformance and why