According to Ron Schmelzer, analyst with ZapThink, security specs are all starting to converge.

“In practice, a lot of the issues around spec collision [or] confusion will be going away very quickly. If companies want to implement SAML or WS-Security or both, they can now certainly do that,” he said, adding that in the long run, the issue will come down to what WS-I, a cross-vendor group, does with their proposed Security profile. “Wherever the WS-I goes (or doesn’t), so too will the industry. We’ll see if they have the guts to take a real stand on the disparate security and federated identity specs.”

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