[DotGNU]Our blindspot - (was: Sun likely to join Web services group)

[John]

DotGNU has no less than three active projects devoted to auth/acq
technology, but we've conveniently ignored another technology in the
monopolist's centralized "hands" - the webwide services directory
service. While Auth is the method by which users will be permitted
access to web services, UDDI is the means by which service providers
will publish their services and access methods? Sadly, DotGNU has not
yet developed or even considered an alternative to UDDI (think of UDDI
as the object registry for the web); he who controls the servers can
push down solutions on the clients. Witness DNS master servers?

I'd think that the easiest innovation we could add on top of UDDI is a
decentralized approach to UDDI listing, perhaps via p2p or a DNS-type
sub-supra- architecture. Any thoughts from anyone?

John Le'Brecage

Norbert Bollow wrote:
> 
> > Seems Sun is also interesting in joining the
> > Webservices interoperability standard group.
> >
> > http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8729618-0.html?tag=ats
> >
> > I think all this implies a good probability that the
> > corporate players will be forced into open standards
> > on webservices.
> 
> My impression is that what Microsoft really wants is open
> standards for most things (because otherwise the
> interoperability problems that "webservices" promise to solve
> are not solved) BUT for the key area of _authentication_ (and
> possibly other aspects of "security") they will try to sneak in
> a closed protocol that relies on some patented algorithm.
> 
> Greetings, Norbert.
> 
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