Wednesday, May 21, 2003

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ZDNet : It's time to rebuild the Internet Ozzie believes that the industry should embrace a more "cellular" model for trust and authentication instead of the current hierarchical security model. "Today, each enterprise has its own directory. The different directory products allow for delegation and assume that trust is hierarchical--meaning the boss authorizes employee access levels --but that's not the way people interact across increasingly decentralized enterprises or within peer groups," Ozzie said. Groove has built a more cellular-oriented trust and authentication model to get around the firewall problem in its own domain, but it won't be easy to go beyond that realm.

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Neil Finlayson : HyperCard->Notes->Web->Groove->InfoPath

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InformationWeek brings an indepth story on the status of the Total Information Awareness program  including an interview with Groove's Michael Helfrich The technologies that will come into play include Veridian software, data objects based on XML's Policy Markup Language, software agents that link Groove work spaces with server-based data and services, Web-services standards, and IBM's Cynefin knowledge-management framework.