RE: [xml-dev] Good news for decentralization?

[Michael Brennan <Michael_Brennan@allegis.com>]

This is good news. There are already a number of vendors working together in
the context of the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee
(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/) to achieve interoperable
standards for this sort of thing. I believe they have already had a goal in
mind of interoperability with Passport. It would be a good thing for
Microsoft to work with these vendors to achieve this -- and hopefully in a
manner that respects privacy concerns.

Note that the OASIS SSTC is also specifying a SOAP binding for their
specification. :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 6:57 AM
> To: decentralization@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org; soapbuilders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [xml-dev] Good news for decentralization?
> 
> 
> David Coursey [1]: "Microsoft says it wants Passport and 
> Hailstorm, its
> foundation services for Web-based applications, to play well 
> with others. So
> in a shocking move, the company is announcing today that 
> Passport will be
> changed to use an Internet-standard security model and 
> Hailstorm won't be
> the only place for users to store their personal information."
> 
> NY Times [2]: "Microsoft says its software must operate with 
> other kinds of
> online authentication software if Internet commerce is to 
> develop rapidly.
> Microsoft executives said they wanted to avoid a rerun of the 
> early days of
> automated teller machines, before common standards and a 
> sense of trust,
> when each major bank had its own stand-alone network."
> 
> WSJ [3]: "Microsoft says its software must operate with other kinds of
> online authentication software if Internet commerce is to 
> develop rapidly.
> Microsoft executives said they wanted to avoid a rerun of the 
> early days of
> automated teller machines, before common standards and a 
> sense of trust,
> when each major bank had its own stand-alone network."
> 
> [1] 
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2813501,00.html
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/technology/20SOFT.html
[3] http://www.msnbc.com/news/631517.asp