The growing number of Web services specifications makes it important to understand and define the interaction and use of these specifications to ensure interoperability. The WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 [WS-I BSP 1.0] defines a collection of normative profiles that provide guidance on issues of interoperability for secure communication of basic Web services based on such specifications.
In the wider technical domain of distributed system management and grid computing, the OGSA WSRF Basic Profile 1.0 [OGSA WSRF Basic Profile] provides the first normative profile, addressing issues regarding the addressing, modeling and management of WS-Resources, but it does not address the details of the security aspects of interoperability issues.
Therefore, in order to ensure the secure and interoperable interaction of Web services in the context of distributed resource management and grid computing, we define here the OGSA Security Profile 1.0 - Secure Channel, a profile that is intended to be used along with one of the OGSA Basic Profiles, such as the OGSA WSRF Basic Profile 1.0 [OGSA WSRF Basic Profile] together with OGSA Basic Security Profile 1.0 – Core [OGSA Basic Security Profile - Core].
The OGSA Security Profile 1.0 - Secure Channel described in this document is an OGSA Recommended Profile as Proposed Recommendation as defined in the OGSA Profile Definition [OGSA Profile Definition]. The OGSA Security Profile 1.0 - Secure Channel describes uses of widely accepted specifications that have been found to enable interoperability. The specifications considered in this profile are specifically those concerned with security of Web services: WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 [WS-I BSP 1.0] and its associated specifications. The requirements stated in this profile are concerned with security mechanisms for communications to ensure mutual authentication, integrity and confidentiality; the profile prescribes the use of these mechanisms to ensure secure communication of OGSA services in an inherently unsafe environment such as the Internet.

The growing number of Web services specifications makes it important to understand and define the interaction and use of these specifications to ensure interoperability. In the wider technical domain of distributed system management and grid computing, the OGSA WSRF Basic Profile 1.0 [OGSA WSRF Basic Profile] provides the first normative profile, addressing issues regarding the addressing, modeling and management of WS-Resources, but it does not address the details of the security aspects of interoperability issues.
Therefore, in order to ensure the secure and interoperable interaction of Web services in the context of distributed resource management and grid computing, we define here the OGSA Basic Security Profile 1.0 – Core, a profile which is intended to be used along with one of the OGSA Basic Profiles, such as the OGSA WSRF Basic Profile 1.0 [OGSA WSRF Basic Profile].
The OGSA Basic Security Profile 1.0 – Core described in this document is an OGSA Recommended Profile as Proposed Recommendation, as defined in the OGSA Profile Definition [OGSA Profile Definition]. The OGSA Basic Security Profile 1.0 – Core describes uses of widely accepted specifications that have been found to enable interoperability. The specification considered in this profile is the basic Web services specification which is used to enable addressing of resources: WS-Addressing 1.0 [WS-Addressing]. The requirements stated in the profile are concerned with binding of key information to an endpoint reference; the profile defines a core security profile which is considered to be common to all OGSA services to ensure security in an inherently unsafe environment such as the Internet.