[ogsa-wg] Profile definition v13

[Steve Loughran]

Andreas Savva wrote:
> I've uploaded v13 of the Profile definition. This includes a lot of 
> edits from Jem and from the review done in the last (yesterday) call.
> 
> https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/ogsa-wg/document/draft-ggf-ogsa-profile-definition/en/13 
> 
> 

One little troublespot with the profile is that unless IBM and Microsoft 
are willing to adapt their IPR licensing policy for WSSecurity, there 
may shortly not be any functional open source WS-Security implementations

the summary of the current state is:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=incubator-general&m=111894292828449&w=2

and the licenses in question are

http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/standards/
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/977Q/2112.shtml

Unless these two vendors come to an amenable position, there isn't going 
to be an apache implementation (and that includes an end to WSS4J), 
which is going to prevent it from entering the 'community' section, or 
being broadly used.

Now, who was planning on using WSS4J in their products?

-steve