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05 Oct · Wed 2005

Katrina layoffs... insult to injury?


Wow. As if the natural disaster and its immediate aftermath weren't enough to cope with, New Orleans now has to struggle back to its feet with a halved city admininstration... and 3,000 more on the dole. I know little or nothing about the relationships between elements of the US City/County/State/Federal structure (beyond the fact that this episode has revealed some of the huge complexity of it all), but even taking that into account, this seems such a counter-intuitive way to go. OK, there must be some City Hall functions which are redundant (I can't imagine there's a huge demand for traffic wardens [meter maids] currently...) but surely there are other areas where they need all the hands and minds they can get? There must be a better way...
Posted by racingsnake @ 03:23 PM GMT+00:00 [ Comments [2] ]

Meanwhile, back on *this* planet...


Hmmmm. A colleague pointed me to this interesting perspective on open standards in the Identity world, on the 'Roadmap' page for Apache's TSIK project. I know the Liberty Alliance is a shy, modest and essentially secretive organisation, but it does put out the odd snippet of press and PR information occasionally, so even if you don't get hit by it accidentally it doesn't take much application to find out about it. Specifically, it's very hard to go far beyond www.projectliberty.org without tripping over the Alliance's commitment to open standards. The adoption of Liberty ID-FF specs as OASIS' SAML 2.0 would seem to me to illustrate that as clearly as possible. The Apache website notes that TSIK started out as a Verisign closed-source project. I wonder if any of my Verisign collaborators at Liberty are aware that ID-FF and ID-WSF are not among those the TSIK team considers to be "based on open web services standards". Perhaps someone should have a quiet word......
Posted by racingsnake @ 10:11 AM GMT+00:00 [ Comments [1] ]
 
 
 
 
 
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