Officially W3C acknowledged the submission of the WS-Policy specification by its authors – IBM, Microsoft, SAP AG, BEA Systems Inc., Sonic Software Corp. and VeriSign Inc. – and it will now begin work on transforming the spec into a full-fledged standard.
"This is a big step forward not only for WS-Policy, but for Web services specs in general," said Karla Norsworthy, vice president, IBM software standards. "WS-Policy is a key enabler, a framework to give flexibility at deployment time."
The spec is designed to allow policies for security, messaging and transactions to be set in a policy layer above the Web services applications so these considerations do not have to be coded in by developers, she said.
