DOI: 01.IJCOM.01.03.43 Secure Architecture Evaluation for Agent Based Web Service Discovery

Abstract—Web Services can be published, discovered and invoked over the web. Web Services can be implemented in any available technology but they are accessible through a standard protocol. With web services being accepted and deployed in both research and industrial areas, the security related issues become important. In this paper, architecture evaluated for web service on negotiating a mutually acceptable security policy based on web service description language to both consumer and provider [1]. It allows a service consumer to discover and retrieve a service-provider’s security policy for service requests and allows a service consumer to send its own security policy for service responses to the service provider. The service consumer combines its own policy for service requests with that of the service provider to obtain the applied security policy for requests, which specifies the set of security operations that the consumer must perform on the request. The combining takes place in such a way that the applied security policy is consistent with both the consumer’s and provider’s security policies. The service provider also combines its own policy for responses with that of the consumer, to obtain the applied security policy for responses