Talk about procrastination: for the longest (sic!) time, the EU-U.S. negotiatons on the open skies agreement seemed to be the the very definition of procrastination. This is now fortunately over: starting next year, we can hope that the monopoly of…
The next two weeks (three weeks really) are going to be interesting: first I will present at JavaOne on AJAX interop, together with Marina Fisher. This JavaOne should get really exciting for a whole number of reasons, especially for the…
So, here are my slides from the work shop – unfortunately the breakout session are not being webcast, so I provide the slides here. In addition, you can find the strategic plan of the ID Theft task force here and…
Here is an interesting move by some .NET developers: they are pleading with Microsoft to open up .NET and – at least – support it on multiple platforms, if not outright open source it. Now that would be interesting. tag:…
WPF/E (Windows Communication Foundation/Everywhere) is now called “Microsoft Silverlight” and available as a beta here. I think it will be really interesting to see if Microsoft goes beyond Windows and Mac and will start supporting other OSes (like Solaris or…
Today, AG Gonzales and FTC Chairman Majoras held a press conference, reporting on the progress of the ID Theft task force. The probably most interesting takeaway for me was the fact that the DoJ is creating a dedicated federal ID…
Ok, I gave in. I finally registered my personal i-name. So going forward you can (also) reach me by using =beuchelt. My contact page can (obviously) be accessed by http://xri.net/=beuchelt Let’s see how this goes…. tag: i-name, XRI, Identity
It’s been a rough ride for the last couple of weeks since I had a family emergency in December and have been quite busy. Since live is coming back to normal, I will start blogging again (hopefully). One interesting thing…
OASIS has published a draft web service profile for XACML, called WS-XACML. Now, this seems to get very interesting, since it has the potential to truely deliver ‘User-Centric’ identity (as opposed to Infocard’s ServiceProvider-centric identity). The significant difference here is…
By now, most people must have seen what caused some massive traffic delays in Boston, fear of terrorism, and some pretty uncomfortable press for a major network. Ok, the almost pavlovian response to a number of unlicensed ad signs might…