The Desktop Fishbowl
Charles blogs all the random nerd stuff he can find.

Wednesday, 6 February 2002

Adam Curry talks about a calendar application he's writing for Manila: CalServices. [Adam Curry: CurryDotCom] Funnily enough, this was sort of the direction I was going to go with the "To Do" application I'm going to write for Radio. Step One was to get it working. Step two was to publish RSS feeds. That way you could subscribe to your To Do list from the News Aggregator, and have things you're due to do turn up amongst the reading material. The problem with Adam's idea is one he vaguely refers to in the link - There is no doubt in my mind that .NET's myCalendar (or whatever they call it) will have thought this issue through, and everyone with a 'passport' will probably be able to pass meeting messages to other members - We all know Passport is evil, but what do we have to replace it? SOAP and XML-RPC are inherently insecure. If we want to set up an open, P2P network of web services, we need an open P2P authentication service. 12:37:10 AM