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No MS didn't originate the ideas and neither did the people on this list or the W3C. Those ideas have their origins in operations research and are decades old. That is beside the point. The point is having a working implementation that actually interoperates. Whether achieved by a one browser world, blindly HTMLing, or a specification, the results count, not the origins. MS is at least running the course instead of trying to get all the horses on yet another non-existent race track. A modern surveillance state? How about protection from the sponsored criminally insane? Note the inclusion of the qualifiers, "policy mediated access". The information is already there. We depend on the very non-interoperability that most of us are here trying to change to keep it from being abused. We need a better policy than "don't worry, the system is stupid" because that system is changing and we are the ones changing it. We are making that assertion: XML-Dev. We just don't like to think about the implications. I prefer a system by which authorities are able to get information when they need it under the control of the law over a Humvee on every corner to protect against the thousand flowers blooming some of which include poison. It's like PICS; no one wanted it until the alternatives were understood. len -----Original Message----- From: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@p...] > I'm betting on MS and .net. It can't be primogeniture, they didn't originate the ideas. Perhaps it's monopoly leverage you're betting on... > It does what is needed immediately. If > the events of this month have escaped your attention, the one > thing pointed out in big bold colors is the need for reliable > policy mediated access to databases in real-time and post event. Darn, I must have missed that in all the hoopla about how we need to create the first modern Surveillance State, as part of being a good role model for the rest of the world. Were was that assertion hiding? :)
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