[JDEV] MS opens up Passport and HailStorm

[Julian Missig]

I wasn't aware Passport is DCE...

Jonathan Siegle wrote:

> Why don't you consider DCE by the Open group as an existing open standard?
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> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Julian Missig wrote:
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>>Uh, not really. That's for existing open standards. There's not really 
>>an existing open standard here that Microsoft is embracing. We're 
>>witnessing Microsoft creating *their own standard* and attempting to 
>>make it the defacto standard.
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>>Julian
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>>Jonathan Siegle wrote:
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>>>Step #1: Embrace.
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>>>On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Adam Theo wrote:
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>>>>wow... MS is on the warpath...
>>>>
>>>>they're supposedly opening up their .Net auth system to allow other,
>>>>non-Passport, auth systems, such as from AOL or Yahoo... they would be
>>>>100% compatible with each other, so Yahoo Auth users could use Yahoo to
>>>>access Hotmail and other MSN services...
>>>>
>>>>http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2813501,00.html