> If I may ask, without I hope sounding too petulant:
For what it's worth, I found your prose rather hard to get through.
(Well, you *did* open the line of questioning... :)
> What does this cartelization (with a rigidity of rules, permissions, and
> hopelessly intertwined processes that even most colluders-in-restraint-of-trade
> would be loath to subject themselves to) have to do with distributed computing,
> web services, or loosely-coupled processes harnessed in cooperation to implement
> custom workflows?
Because the minute they leave a single administrative domain, many of us
believe that things like authentication, authorization, privacy, and
data integrity are important.
Or would you mind mailing me your PIN?
/r$
