Security standards for the semantic web

This paper first describes the developments in standards for the semantic web and then describes standards for secure semantic web. In particular XML security, RDF security, and secure information integration and trust on the semantic web are discussed. Some details of our research on access control and dissemination of XML documents are also given. Next privacy issues for the semantic web are discussed. Finally some aspects of secure web services as well as directions for research and standards efforts for secure semantic web are provided.