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To: RIT who wrote (34665)	11/6/2000 10:36:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello RIT, > If you try and map current computer use and system design, > this is very true. But there are areas where federation > can fit in. I'm still looking for the real good examples ... > At the moment the link between client/supplier/card > company already has interactions which map to a > federated model - the transfer of address information etc. I'm not sure that I understand how you see this as a centralized federation model. They own the object and have exclusive rights to it, and all the extended information that they have about you. You, as the card holder, have nothing today. > How this done in the future will be worth watching, after > all that was what digitalme was designed to allow. As one of the original architects of the original digitalMe, I am more than familiar with what digitalMe is, and can be. ;-) > If you had asked the 38m sharing MP3 files a few years > back about sharing there systems across the net, I guess > few would have said it was a good idea. It will depend on > the level of security provided. And if you use a product like AtGuard you would be very aware of what occurs when you start to trade files on Napster. You'd see immediate port scans and other attempts to compromise your system ... ;-) (Yes, I know because I have sat next to people doing the port scans and looking at peoples machines ... it's what we do some weekend nights for fun ... ;-) Scott C. Lemon