6. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating policy assertions for a Web Service to be deployed comprises normalizing a policy to include one or more alternative sets of policy assertions, and wherein the scoring mechanism is applied to each set of policy assertions.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating policy assertions for a Web Service to be deployed comprises normalizing a policy to include one or more alternative sets of policy assertions, and wherein the scoring mechanism is applied to each set of policy assertions. 7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the selection of runtime stack is for a Web Service provider, and the results of the scoring mechanism are used to select a stack which supports all the sets of policy assertions.