XML standard set for secure Web services
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) today announced that its interoperability consortium has approved the Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) as an OASIS open standard. XACML, a variant of Extensible Markup Language, allows Web developers to enforce policies for information access over the Internet. Its adoption as an OASIS standard means that agencies can implement it with the confidence that it will become widely used. As an open standard, no single vendor owns it and all developers can use it. Full Story