[Auth]Re: [Arch]Freedom and (vs?) convenience

[Scott]

Norbert Bollow wrote:

> However, emulation for Microsoft's bytecode will be available
> in the DotGNU Secure Execution Environment, so that .NET
> programs can also be executed on the DotGNU platform.
I think a BIG question is will a Hailstorm ASP running applications 
built by MS be ABLE to ask DotGNU for auth instead of Passport?  Will 
the provider need to point to a different server or will it be the 
client that determines where to look for the 'passport'? I can see a 
passport url being hardcoded into closed programs which would undermine 
the ability to use a different server even though the published standard 
may allow for other servers. There was an article recently (mentioned on 
slashdot.org) about being denied support services for developers 
documents and MSN support for hotmail accounts(or something of that 
nature) unless they had a passport account, would MSN allow their 
customers a choice of passport or dotgnu? I don't see it as likely, what 
about other ASP's? And if MS is the provider of most initial 
applications, this may end up locking dotgnu out much of the time.

   Also, in not reading MS documents in order to avoid legal problems, 
(as per:dotgnu.org) what sort of reading is available in order to 
understand the framework, is there more to it than the documents that 
have been submitted for approval as a standard?  Got a link for that?