“SPML adds to the identity management capabilities by providing a standard way in which access to these critical infrastructure resources can be granted or denied,” said analyst Ronald Schmelzer of ZapThink in Waltham, Mass. “This means that companies can build applications that have strict identity and security policies without having to do so in a proprietary and noninteroperable manner.”

“While SPML has more to do with provisioning physical access to specific resources, there is definitely potential for overlap or at least complementary offering to the WS-Security and WS-Policy specifications,” Schmelzer said.

Read more at: InfoWorld