The Liberty Alliance, a consortium working on policy and technology issues for identity management, is discussing with Microsoft Corp. how to reconcile their competing sets of protocols for secure Web transactions.
"We have finally put down the boxing gloves and are trying to figure out how to solve our customers' problems," said Roger Sullivan, the newly-elected president of the Liberty Alliance and vice president of Oracle Corp.'s identity management section.
The Liberty Alliance, whose participants include Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp., backs the ID-Web Services Framework (ID-WSF), a set of protocols for Web services. Microsoft supports another set, WS-Star.
