The open document discussion is also raging within the halls of the European institutions. Please see for a report and some industry responses here. On that page, you will also find a letter from Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microssystems, Inc.…
Author: Gerald Beuchelt
Now, here is an interesting talking point: XML Encryption (XMLEnc) is bad. “Why?”, you might ask. Well, in their lack of infinite wisdom, the XML encryption community left out a very important concept: Authenticated Encryption, i.e. combining signatures and encryption…
Yesterday, we had our first day at the booth here at XML 2005. We were able to attract a fairly large crowd, talking about the Identity products, StarOffice, the XML Registry, JWSDP and Open Solaris. Up there is a picture…
Living in Massachusetts, I strongly support the state’s move to migrate their publications and documents to a truely open format (i.e. OASIS Open Document). Now I recently ran across a public petition to the German Parliament to enact a similar…
Due to very limited internet connection, I have to be brief. Here are some of the result of my trip to IETF 64: There is definitively a fairly broad interest in using SAML within the GSS-API framework. A small group…
Well, I have to admit, it is a lot easier than it used to be. A few caveats, though: I prefer to configure after the installation manually. I had one nasty failure during install at some time when I was…
… is a no-go. Please read Rob’s blog entry about WinFX not being supported on the October 05 CTP release of Vista.
I truly love Offline Files (client side caching – CSC) on Windows machines, particularly in combination with Folder Redirection and DFS: in my setup, I have My Documents redirected to a DFS domain root and cache all the documents I…
Longhorn Server is a strange beast: I was just starting to play with AD on Longhorn server (PDC, Build 5219) and wanted to startup my favorite AD tool, ntdsutil.exe to poke around in the AD settings .. it’s gone (so…
I was getting a little interested in learning more about how the Indigo/WCF transport listener architecture works. This is what I found so far: The center of this is the TransportListenerFactory. Its inheritance tree can be found on MSDN but…