11 April 2002

MS to drop Hailstorm Microsoft is slowly killing of Hailstorm according to an article by John Markoff of the New York Times. He claims that MS has been slowly devesting their My Services (formerly Hailstorm) Consumer Web Services platform over the past few months, with a goal of eventually releasing "My Services" as a package for Corporates to use. I don't know how this will affect Passport yet, but I can't imagine them halting that service for the time being, regardless of its problems. I wonder if the Citibank announcement last month will be affected by it as they were to be the prefered financial services provider for My Services. 1:52:58 PM      comment []   IBM, MS and Verisign announce new Web Service Security Architecture I haven't had time to read the full whitepaper yet. This Whitepaper describes their new WS-Security proposal. This document describes a proposed strategy for addressing security within a Web service environment. It defines a comprehensive Web service security model that supports, integrates and unifies several popular security models, mechanisms, and technologies (including both symmetric and public key technologies) in a way that enables a variety of systems to securely interoperate in a platform- and language-neutral manner. It also describes a set of specifications and scenarios that show how these specifications might be used together. I'll have a quick read and come back with any comments. 1:21:01 PM      comment []

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