Liberty Alliance, Microsoft discuss identity protocols - Integration of WS- and Web Services Framework discussed.

Despite a screaming need for integration, enterprise identity-and- access management continues to be a Tower of Babel of competing platforms and standards.

In recent years, a big obstacle to cross-platform integration has been the war of attrition between the Liberty Alliance, a consortium working on policy and technology issues for identity management, and operating system giant Microsoft, which has backed a competing set of protocols for secure Web transactions.

But that war may be ending, as new leadership takes the helm at Liberty amid news that the group has finally sat down with Microsoft to talk about integrating various standards frameworks.

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