They do politics differently there...
From
Haaretz last Wednesday:
"What did you think, that there would be a war and
nothing would happen to our soldiers," Olmert asked the committee. "The
claim that we lost is unfounded. Half of Lebanon is destroyed; is that
a loss?"
Say what you like about Tony Blair and New Labour's reputation for
managing the media, it is hard to imagine him coming out with a
statement in those terms.
As for me... well yes, I do consider the destruction of half of Lebanon to be a loss. I imagine a lot of the survivors do, too.
Posted by racingsnake
@ 03:48 PM GMT+00:00
Yay!
ComputerWeekly
have picked up on the Cabinet Office's Liberty Alliance IDDY award.
It's good to see recognition of the Gateway project as part of the move
towards more federated identity systems.
I have to wonder, though, at their description of Liberty as
being "backed by leading financial services firms and major IT
suppliers". I mean, it's true as far as it goes... but what about the
members whose principal business is neither financial services nor
IT - such as AOL, France Telecom, General Motors, NTT, Nokia,
Sony-Ericsson and Vodafone?
Then there are the non-commercial members, like the Fraunhofer
Institute, Purdue University, Sunderland City Council, Washington
University School of Law and the US Department of Defense. These are
just some of the ones I have worked with directly in the course of my
Liberty participation, but there are many more, including, for example,
the New Zealand State Service Commission - whose representative, Colin
Wallis, chairs the new e-Government Special Interest Group (SIG).
All this may seem a bit nit-picky, and I'm not looking the
ComputerWeekly gift horse in the proverbial mouth, but I do think it's
an important quality of the Liberty Alliance that it brings together an
extremely diverse set of stakeholders. Identity is, bluntly, too
important a part of our online activity to be left exclusively to the
vendor community. Conscientious as we are, it's vital that our views be
tempered and informed by the lawyers, the public servants, the
academics, as well as the banks, manufacturers and service sector
companies - and that's why it's good that Liberty provides just such a
forum.
Posted by racingsnake
@ 12:48 PM GMT+00:00
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