Thought Experiment on SOA Security and Governance

[Michael Stiefel <development@reliablesoftware.com>]

One of my action items was to come with a scenario that we could use to 
think about SOA Governance. Here is one "use case". Try to imagine what it 
would take for the United States to have secure Internet voting in state 
and federal elections.

Who would offer the "voting service"?

This would be the extreme case of Federated Identity. Would the state 
federated identity servers be trusted by the federal identity servers? I 
cannot imagine everybody getting an X509 certificate. Would we restrict 
voting to a few days?

Comments?

Michael