…or at least is shifted 9 hours back đ The reason of my long silence lies in the fact that I moved from Microsoft Italy, MCS, to Microsoft Corporation in Redmond! I’m now an AE in the Windows Server Evangelism Group, and I’m not adding anything for the time being [:)] Last months were…
I don’t know if you are familiar with the meaning of the word which appears in the agenda section depicted below, however if in your calendar it appears without a name right after it… well, you know. đ
Check out the long awaited whitepaper from Richard about producing distributed systems TODAY.
Don and Jason (do you have a blog, Jason? I’d love to put you in my sharpreader!) just opened to public a very, very useful collection of patterns related to security and web services. Check it out, start here
“proveremo un’attrazione irresistibile per una nuova terra, al di lĂ della Grande Acqua… dove ci batteremo per la Ricompensa!!!” Maggiori dettagli in seguito [:)][:)][:)]
Some time ago I had the honor to be cited by the xmlcoverpages article about the new WS-ReliableMessaging; now it happened again for WS-SecurityPolicy. Evviva [:)]
“…eons from now, we will feel an irresistible pull to a faraway land — to fight for the Prize!!!” Details at some later time [:)][:)][:)][:)][:)]
This is very good news! Check it out here. BTW: if you want a quick intro to the new features of the just republished WS-SecurityPolicy, check out my Bignami on the subject đ
WS-SecurityPolicy is a very interesting specification. It really shows that it incorporated the feedback of people which actually used WS-Security: it address historical concerns like the order of operations, the role of the tokens (initiator rather than recipient), the protection of elements of the wsse:security header… hey, it even acknowledges that sometimes the security…
Sweeping the recent headlines feed of MSDN can be rewarding: for example, today I just discovered that WS-SecurityPolicy was just updated to accomodate the needs of the new WS-Security, WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversation as we know them today. In fact, with its 90 pages the new version is rather a mojor rewrite. It gives…