Web Services Strategies
Beyond the technology, IT strategies for implementation of Web services by Doug Kaye.
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Gartner: Ignore Standards for Web Services Security. "Gartner advises firms to rely on vendor-provided technology to provide security for web services-based transactions until 2006, even though it may not comply with standards."
But IMO, the decision isn't that straightforward. After all, look at Google and Amazon.com, both of whom offer web services which cross organizational boundaries and use relatively little security. Okay, so these aren't business-process web services, but my point is that there are many classes of web services that can be deployed today without the need for complex proprietary security solutions. At the same time, I have to say that the Gartner report is probably about right, that it will be 2-3 years until one can find a fully standardized security stack based on WS-Security and its add-ons that is sufficient to support complex web services which cross security domains. [Source: vnunet.com]
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2003 4:40:16 PM 
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Digital ID World Presentations. In case you missed it (or even if you didn't) you can now hear any of the presentations at last month's conference in Denver. Here's my panel:
Role of Identity in Securing Web Services
Doug Kaye,
Moderator
Jamie Lewis,
Burton Group
John McDowall,
Grand Central
Phil Windley,
Windley Group
Atul Tulshibagwale,
Trustgenix
Audio: MP3 Windows Media Real Audio
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2003 3:45:31 PM
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Dave McComb on Business Semantics (a new IT Conversation). As anyone who's taken on a large-scale multi-party integration project will tell you, "the plumbing is the easy part." By far the greatest challenges come from reconciling semantic differences between systems and organizations. In this interview, Dave answers some of the hottest questions in today's world of semantics.
In a recent essay, author Clay Shirky challenged the veracity of the Semantic Web. Dave agrees in part, but goes on to defend the concept and its importance to solving our profusion of data and our inability to make use of it. Ever tried to use Google to search for anything written by George W. Bush rather than about him? [Dave's recommended book about the Semantic Web.]
We also discuss the quality of metadata and the challenges of tagging performed by humans. Dave compares the simplicity of the ontology of the species to an ontology for fine art, which virtually requires an idiolect.
And don't we all remember the funny-if-it-weren't-so-sad incident of the Mars Climate Orbiter, which crashed into the surface of the planet because a function written to accept data in English units was passed a metric-system value. Or was it the other way around? It's all about semantics.
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2003 3:26:54 PM
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