Article: Novell Rollout Includes Single-Sign-On

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Here's an article worth noting, INHO. Novell is introducing a 
cross-platform rollout of its next generation of Nterprise Networking 
tools that will service Linux as well as Windows and includes a 
version of what I believe will become the ubiquitous use of a 
federated (i.e. any trusted service certifier) LDAP-based 
Single-Sign-On identity authentication/authorization system. I'm not 
suggesting that the rest of the article is especially interesting, 
unless you happen to interested in enterprise networking tools as 
someone other than an end-user.

This is the beginning of a wider use of this kind of user identity 
verification. This is of interest to us, as SAML, WSRP, and XCBF Are 
Ratified as OASIS Standards, because the window of opportunity to 
begin working on a Human Preferences Profile Markup Language (HPPML) 
is opening. This is actually of somewhat more immediate applicability 
than our other SC efforts, although some aspects of HPCDML that play 
into XCBF (eXtensible Common Biometric Format) can also apply to 
Preferences Profiles as part of a HumanML-Enhanced extension of 
Single-Sign-On.

This can be used to serve us in that we can make HPPML able to 
provide both increased security through greater physical identity 
authentications AND Preferences Profiles to combat Spam by going Spam 
one better and giving individuals control over the distribution of 
their Preferences Profiles (and other more intimate information such 
as medical histories) with specific personalization rules for what 
kinds of information/offers will be acceptable or encouraged AND can 
be made to strengthen the barriers to unwanted and unsolicited offers 
by giving very specific terminology tools for preferences filters 
(finally making filters more efficient than not) while actually 
inviting offers that accompany and enhance valuable information in 
product and service areas of particular vocational or avocational 
interest to individuals.

This is, unfortunately, I believe, a case of USE IT OR LOSE IT. 
Either we do this, or the advertising, marketing, market-research, 
public relations, COMMUNICATIONS industry certainly WILL, (though not 
in the medical histories arena unless we are foolish enough to allow 
the pharmaceuticals industry greater access to our information than 
is already allowed--and that alone is sufficient motivation for me to 
oppose it) AND they will certainly not have it in their minds to 
provide such add-ons to single-sign-on IDs as anything but revenue 
generators period.

The handwriting is now on the walls.

Ciao,
Rex
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