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 Michael Champion wrote: > > I'll guess that most useful innovations tend to come from visionaries > who don't fully understand the complexities of what they're unleashing > on the world, and not the experts who are focusing on the details. > That's more or less Clayton Christensen in a nutshell -- the experts > were doing the "sustaining innovations" to make faster and more > complicated mainframes while the Jobs/Wozniaks of the world were > screwing around in their parents' garages creating the "disruptive > innovations." > > I'm reminded of the (possibly apocryphal) story that Tim Berners-Lee was > ignored or scorned by the hypertext community of the late 80's / early > 90's because his stuff was so trivial and didn't address the interesting > problems. Of course, by ignoring the interesting problems he could > deliver something that actually added value vastly disproportionate to > the cost of seeing 404 messages now and then. > > Security is another kettle of fish, of course, and to some extent we're > paying the price for convenient simplifying assumptions 10 years ago. > Still, it would be awfully nice if something as simple as HTTP digest > authentication turned out to add value vastly disproportionate to the > cost of (whatever its downside is). I don't particularly believe that > will happen, but I was very happy to see the discussion. If nothing > else, it looks like that has a lot more browser support than we thought, > eh? granted. I was simply put off by some of the original posts. Sorry for my noise. The post (which I looked for at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ that only shows post up to 2003-12 -- thanks Simon) that cocked my trigger was: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200401/msg00115.html just a little too hard to stomach. Luckily it easier to change your authentication mechanism than it is to switch from a mainframe to a mac. best, -Rob 
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