For those of you who were reading the entries below and/or those posted by David Berlind at ZDnet on the intersection of open source and open standards, as reflected in the contretemps at Apache over WS-Security, here are a few follow on items to check out.

For those of you who were reading the entries below and/or those posted by David Berlind at ZDnet on the intersection of open source and open standards, as reflected in the contretemps at Apache over WS-Security, here are a few follow on items to check out:

Power Players Advance Web Services Security Standardization : A Gartner Group report on the decision by the Men In Black et al. to contribute three new security-related Web services specs to OASIS.

: New post by David Berlind, summarizing Tom Glover at IBM’s thoughts on whether “open” is a relative or absolute term.