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Re: WS-Emperor naked?

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: Re: WS-Emperor naked?
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 15:29:33 -0500
• Cc: 'Tim Bray' <tbray@t...>, "xml-dev@l... DEV" <xml-dev@l...>
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> It might be.  How would one know?  It is likely 
> that every one of the OASIS teams out there really 
> believes in their project.  

Only a handful -- probably no more than six -- are OASIS.  Almost the 
others are proprietary efforts led by IBM, Microsoft, and various 
partners (often BEA).  Look at http://www.w3.org/2001/03/WSWS-popa/, in 
particular paper 51 (the only one with no individual authors listed). 
They've been working on this stuff a *long* time.

At any rate, WS-Security is one of the few that's at OASIS.  It meets a 
real need: it says how to use XML DSIG, XML Encryption to secure SOAP 
messages, and how to convey identity and crypto key information, as well.
	/r$
-- 
Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect
DataPower Technology                           http://www.datapower.com
XS40 XML Security Gateway   http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html
XML Security Overview  http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html

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