Monday, June 10, 2002

Some light morning reading on TrustBridge. You've got to love the title of this article: Microsoft's Federated Security and Identity Roadmap. The closing paragraph is great, too: Clearly, federation is the future of shared user identity, and Web services are key to the future of interactions between computers, within organizations, and across organizations. Microsoft is building the tools, infrastructure, and services to enable a federated Internet future.. Funny. If you scroll past all of the hype, bullet points, problem statements and other fluff, you start to understand the goal of the article. First bullet point under the heading "What to Do to Get Ready for Federated Identity" says that you need to implement Windows Active Directory. So the vision of the "Internet future" consists of building bridges exclusively between Windows 2000 servers, with Active Directory. Not exactly what I'd call an "enabling" technology. All the more reason to believe that this particular web service will go nowhere fast. 11:11:59 AM

Another picture from a digital camera that's not ours. Here's Jasmine dressed in her big sister's dance recital costume from last year, taken at a cousin's birthday party on Sunday. 7:34:32 AM