Worldwide Sites
Web Services provides a new paradigm for developing applications that operate
- Entirely on a single system
- Across many systems but within a well defined network
- Across many systems that span many networks.
Web Services are a set of emerging standards that define how the web service endpoints should behave and communicate with each other. Web services abstracts the communication interface and provides independence from implementation and deployment choices, leading to greater interoperability and automation of key business processes across network boundaries.
When consuming or providing Web Services, VeriSign SSL certificates lets you combine both transport security and application layer security to achieve all needed levels of trust. See the Trust, VeriSign SSL certificates, and Web Services sections for further discussion.
VeriSign has donated to the Apache Software Foundation source code to implement Web Services security. For more information see http://incubator.apache.org/tsik.
We have helped define some of the security aspects and have collaboratively published the following:
December 2006
WS-Federation Specification 1.1 (PDF)
WS-Federation.xsd
WS-Federation.wsdl
WS-Authorization.xsd
WS-Privacy.xsd
March 2006
Web Services Capability (PDF)
Web Services Policy Framework (PDF)
policy-2006-03-01-RC1.xsd
WS-Security License
Use of the WS-Security Specification may be subject to certain patent claims asserted by VeriSign, Inc. and other entities. To the extent that use of the specification would necessarily infringe such claims (each "necessary claim"), you may obtain a royalty-free Necessary Claims license permitting your use of the specification by submitting a properly executed copy of the License Agreement below to VeriSign. Please note that Necessary Claims relating to the WS-Security Specification have also been asserted by other entities, see http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wss/ipr.php, and you may want to contact those companies separately to obtain the necessary licenses concerning such claims.
VeriSign's WSS License Agreement
Executed copies of the License Agreement should be delivered to VeriSign via facsimile sent to the following number: +1-650-426-5510, mark with attention to APRG Administrator, Charlene Wynn. For more information, please send an email to wss-license@verisign.com.
