Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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BTP Primer. Released in June by OASIS, this is an excellent introduction to transactions in a loosely coupled SOA. Even if you don't already know what the ACID properties of a transaction are all about, you'll understand why they're inappropriate for most web services, and you'll learn the buzzwords of the Business Transaction Protocol. (31-page PDF, or HTML version.)
Posted Sunday, August 18, 2002 6:52:24 PM 
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Phil Becker on Passport.
Last week I reported on the Federal Trade Commission's Microsoft Consent Decree (a worthwhile read in its own right). Although there has been much criticism of the decree as being no more than a "sorry, we won't do it again" slap on the wrist, Phil Becker has identified a number of interesting lessons to be learned.
- The level of concern people have about controlling their identity information has been repeatedly underestimated by many in the industry as the focus on technology.
- If you aggregate enough of it in a centralized system, the government will eventually take a role in dictating how you must secure and protect it.
- The Microsoft consent decree marks the first time that government has moved to regulate the specific implementation of a company's security surrounding identity information.
- A fascinating part of this FTC decree is the implied demand for total transparency in internal procedures when handling identity data.
Posted Sunday, August 18, 2002 10:38:32 AM
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