My feeling is that Liberty Alliance will be a fiasco. Too many CEOs anxious not to give-up control over their customers (i.e. VISA) or anxious to win the most profitable position for their company (i.e. Sun). Output specification won't be a design by committee such as IPSEC, will it?  6:41:22 PM    

Does appointment of a lawyer to a Chief Security Strategist position mean that Microsoft will pursue legal rather than technical means to increasing their products' security? See Tim Mullen's column at Securityfocus.  6:23:45 PM