Day: November 14, 2004

My polycomm knows me

Eric Norlin from Ping just sent me this to consider:

Imagine:

you walk into a conference room; dial into a con call on the polycomm; the polycomm senses your bluetooth phone and (using a discovery service) looks at your personal attribute known as “music preferences”; thus your current favorite music (by how often you listen to it) is downloaded from your “federated” mp3 player — and the hold music while you wait for your fellow con-callers is *your* favorite music.

sound a bit advanced? actually, you could (technically) do this right now with the Liberty Alliance specifications…

It's a great scenario to think through, and exposes all kinds of issues. So my plan is to start drilling into the laws of identity by examining alternative ways to implement this scenario.

For tonight, seems like I'm off to a party. Maybe two.

Going substantive

OK – I've been bloggin’ for a week and haven't written about any substantive identity issues yet. I've just been getting used to the environment, which is pretty incredible. And starting tomorrow, I will turn over a new leaf, I promise! None of this self-referential biff! boom! bah! with Marc Canter and my other friends. Except to report that he now says this (I can't help myself):

It's great to see Kim extending olive braches in the spirit of BIG BANG and distributed computing.

We gotta realize that Microsoft IS 1,000 Tornados – and maybe all those young Turks there will realize that Windows based machines WILL be connected to a distributed mesh of devices (whetehr they like it or not) – which yes – will be runing somebody ELSE's software (heaven forbid.)

In that scenario – it behooves us ALL to make sure that Microsoft is there – with Indigo, InfoCards and Users & Groups.

Gee – I hate it when Marc calls me a young turk.

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Compliance testing

It's worse than I had originally thought… My weblog was (I hope it is no longer) bringing down Safari. – and then reports of this (I'm quoting here from a remarkably calm Dave Ely):

It's not just your site, butt also your feed which locks up WebKit (killing NetNewsWire). I suspect that it's something in the LDAP spec table down stream a bit.

Not my feed too! It can't be!

I don't yet know what NetNewsWire is (though it sounds really, really important), but RadioLand technical support said that although they could see nothing wrong with my blog, I should probably simplify my LDAP spec table – which, I must admit, went through several magical translations (all automated). Are the fates punishing me for my work on mapping? No, that can't be.