Tuesday, July 16, 2002

Justin Rudd, echoing my own concerns with Groove: http://www.pinetree-tech.com/weblog/2002/07/15.html#a195 9:26:27 AM      comment []  trackback []

BEEP, again Here's a response to that earlier slashdot post, from a BEEP author: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid6070&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid99&mode=thread&cid892279 finally, as far as web services go, well, let's just say that those guys could learn a lot from what xerox did back in the early 80's. in a few years, they may actually have something that works half as well as what xerox did... /mtr Bitter, moi? 9:26:27 AM      comment []  trackback []

More Liberty commentary: Digital Identity (the place to go, IMO) on Liberty: http://weblog.digital-identity.info/archives/000128.html#000128 He mentions RSA's SAML patents which I guess have the potential to sink any OSS efforts. Sigh. It's fine if it's Enterprise only, as the companies involved in the consortium are big enough to pay to freight. But identity has quite the potential to go beyond the Fortune 500. (Imagine if they invented their own email system...who would care?) I hope dotGnu's (http://www.gnu.org/projects/dotgnu/) virtual identity project doesn't take forever to release. 9:26:27 AM      comment []  trackback []

Liberty *finally* released The Liberty spec for single sign-on & cross-site authentication, but not in HTML. Did the want people to comment on it, or not? The home page asked me to download Flash 6. Hrrrm. That'll please the techies. Peter Drayton comments on the released Liberty spec: http://www.razorsoft.net/weblog/2002/07/15.html#a303 His criticisms seem to amount to ( "xml get's passed/encrypted this way, not the way SOAP/WS-Security/WSDL is supposed to work ). With Microsoft and IBM stonewalling Sun's participation in the Web Services group, and SOAP increasingly seen as a method for MS and IBM to exert undue control over the next-big-thing in Internet standards, is it any surprise that the Liberty consortium opted for a more truly vendor neutral XML+HTTP approach? I'm interested in finding out whether there are any security holes, and what it would take to implement the spec with open source software. 9:26:26 AM      comment []  trackback []

Blogchalking? http://www.blogchalking.tk/ I've always wondered why the search engines don't put some thought into geocoding for web pages. With bloggers you have a huge group of web-savvy types doing things that supplant the efforts of the mining co (nee about.com) and yahoo as far as categorizing links. Why not just come up with a crummy spec for a few more pieces of important metadata? 9:26:26 AM      comment []  trackback []

BEEP? "There are a number of reasons why [BEEP] is not having a huge impact, some political, some technical." [ http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid6070&cid891254 ] 9:26:25 AM      comment []  trackback []