Is security still the major impediment to Web services deployments?
How is that landscape changing? Nadalin: The landscape is changing. With the customers I’m seeing, from governments to enterprises, WS-Security is showing up as a fundamental building block of their Web services. What we have established here is a check box for security for Web services. So do I see security as an impediment? In some ways it is. For more sophisticated Web services people who need trust and federation, it still is. For single Web services, it’s not an impediment. Where do the WS-Secure Conversation and WS-Trust specs stand? Nadalin: We are ready to do our interops (interoperability workshops Oct. 5 and 6 in Austin, Texas. These workshops are gatherings of companies with implementations of these specifications where feedback is exchanged.) We hope once these are complete that we don’t need to rev the specs and we can take them to standards body. That’s basically the direction we’re taking with all of our specs. We’re also working on a policy specification and the W3C is
