Coordinating access control between a private registry and web service providers

Abstract

Securing and controlling the access to Web services is paramount to adopting Web services in distributed computing environments. In contrast to the existing access control models that focus on service client and provider ends, we propose in this paper a unified access control model, which uniquely consider the service registry as well as client and provider ends. The proposed model is applicable in the wired and wireless environments, and can support a wide spectrum of enterprises.