IBM and Microsoft Corp. are set to turn over to a standards body a key set of Web services security specifications they have been developing for establishing trust and exchanging data between partners.
In September, the pair will submit WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation and WS-SecurityPolicy to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), which will create a technical committee to develop the specifications into a standard. The two made the official announcement today at the annual Burton Group Catalyst conference.
The most significant specification of the trio is WS-Trust, which establishes a single path for moving between partners security information and security tokens of all kinds, including Kerberos, X.509, the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and any others.
