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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (58156)	5/24/1999 2:09:00 PM
From: Rob S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

I think it's over-played but can't advise which way it will go. It is now a momentum play. Several companies are trying to carve up a proprietary market for verification and authorization systems. And the U.S. patent office has been incredibly agreeable to issuing patents for these systems, even though many of them originated years ago in networked banking or had their start with the W3C - the world-wide body that is supposed to develop and set Internet standards. The W3C has worked on several security and privy issues, including the Open Profiling Standard and have proposals out there for a uniform system. But they are lousy at marshalling their members and promoting their work. Meanwhile, companies working on these committees or in related industries, have conspired to co-opt the methods and "technology" and set up proprietary systems. There is big money in play here so a little theft can go a long way. The daxn W3C should get off their back ends, muster private and political support and push the standards forward. What they have allowed to happen is bullshit. This is not something - the conveyance of secure information over the ubiquitous Internet, that should be in the proprietary control of any company.