Thursday, April 11, 2002

Simon Fell: "Microsoft, I.B.M. and VeriSign to Cooperate on Web Security. Microsoft, I.B.M. and VeriSign plan to announce a new technical approach that they hope will ensure greater security and thus stimulate commercial development of Web services. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Technology] Sounds like there's going to be a new version of WS-Security coming down the pipe." IBM developerWorks Security in a Web Services World: This paper describes a proposed strategy and comprehensive model for security in the Web service environment. (Microsoft's post) Web Services Security:  The Web Services Security specification offers a new security model for sending messages between services. (Specification) (Microsoft's post) Web Services ToolKit for dynamic e-business.  A new release of the IBM Web Services Toolkit that offers an early implementation of the new proposed WS-Security specification. The WS-Security XML Schema. This is a new Web Services security proposal that combines the SOAP-SEC and WS-Security/WS-License stuff that was out before. [Snell's Blog] This is a very imortant spec for Web Services to be real, commercial products. 9:42:28 PM

Brian Jepson reported on Tuesday that Microsoft was planning to announce their .NET plans for Mac OS X at the next talk in the Silicon Valley Speaker Series. The event happened yesterday and the transcript is now online. Interesting reading in general re: the MS/Apple relationship, but the crux of the session for me was where the speaker addressed Microsoft's plans for .NET on the Mac, saying "...The way we’re looking at the Mac is as a great client platform for connecting to .NET....We'll build high quality XML Web services support ...it doesn’t make sense to us to promote .NET as the thing you do if you’re a Mac ISV...we’re open to Apple participating in the .NET platform if they want to....we don’t plan today to work the Visual Studio.NET tools, the .NET framework, the set of APIs, we don’t plan to actually show up at WWDC and say, here’s how you build .NET client software on the Mac". [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] 9:39:24 PM

Ingo provides a .NET Remoting Example: Remoting Channel with Encryption. For everyone interested in Remoting who did not yet receive my book [1]: Christian Weyer just sent me this URL which I really have to share: http://www.gotdotnet.com/userfiles/toub/SecureRemoting.zip. It's a new example from Microsoft that contains a .NET Remoting channel which uses encryption and which can be employed without relying on IIS. [But mind that the current version only supports synchronous processing of messages; async is not yet supported ... but it wouldn't be to hard for you to add this as well ...] [1] ;-) [Ingo Rammer's DotNetCentric] 9:26:53 PM

I hate to quote the Inquirer, err Register, on anyhting but this does support what our group understood about the Lucovsky changes and group realignment. MS pulls the plugs on Hailstorm, pending rethink. Is it our imagination or in the .NET vision shrinking? [The Register] But of course, the Inquirer, err Register, has to put an anti-end-of-of-Microsoft slant on it-) No, its because the market spoke and they listened and are changing their strategy from a more proprietary one to one based completly on standards: WS_SECURITY, etc - GXA 8:24:49 AM

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