Web services standards to converge
C|Net | at | by Mike
Two sets of secure Web services standards are under development: one led by IBM and Microsoft, the other by the Liberty Alliance. The two efforts are driven by different perspectives, with the result that they overlap in some ways and are complementary in others, both for Web services and for Internet single sign-on (I-SSO). The separate sets of standards will eventually converge, but until then, companies that have a need to implement new secure Web services should make minimal, tactical investments in their architecture.