Oasis, a standards and interoperability consortium that's trying to blend two competing XML security standards into one, will host the meeting.
Most analysts say the similarities between the proposed standards outweigh any differences.
Until now, this has been a Securant vs. Netegrity issue. Hopefully, they'll both work within Oasis to develop something useful. To make that happen, Oasis formed the Security Technical Committee, which will meet Jan. 9. Both are receptive to working together on this. Companies with different infrastructures need to be able to communicate that a user is authorized to perform transactions on other companies' sites.