SecureConversation

WS-SecureConversation describes how message exchanges can be securely managed. It is a relatively new entry to WebServicesSecurity, but it appear to have been adopted by Open Grid Services Infrastructure as part of the business conducted in a "virtual organization".

• see p68 of Mar04 document at
  • http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF11/Documents/OGSI_Primer_Final.pdf)
• BobSutor from IBM said "Together with WS-Federation and WS-Authorization, WS-SecureConversation deal with how customers connect computing systems that use different underlying security technologies."
• One significance of this set of WebServicesSecurity technologies is to allow management of resources by an external partnering firm that uses a different digital ID system.

WS-SecureConversation requires the use of WS-Trust as a corequisite to WebServicesSecurity.

• Technical specifications for WS-SecureConversation can be found at
  • http://xml.coverpages.org/WS-SecureConversation200405.pdf

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