Before TechEd San Diego I'm going to be presenting a SAML token issuer sample with Michele Leroux Bustamante as part of the Web Service Interoperability Day this Saturday.  The event is a chance to actually see interoperability happening, rather than just watching PowerPoint slides.  We'll be focussing on showing real code demonstrate WS-Security (now an OASIS standard that will be implemented with the release of WSE 2.0) and WS-Policy.

Getting the demos ready has been an international collaboration.  John Bristowe has been waving the WSE/Policy 'Pom Poms'.  Chris Haddad is doing the Java implementation with OpenSAML.

After the demonstration there's a panel discussion on the state of web services standards that should be very lively.