Gettin' The Lead Out

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It's Gettin' Madden Here

It's Gettin' Madden Here 08/11/2004 09:01 PM
Madden 2K5 was released today. I spoke to an employee at the mall's EB Games and he said they sold $13,000+ worth of MAdden last...

It's Gettin' Madden In Here

It's Gettin' Madden In Here 08/11/2004 12:52 AM

gettin' lawyered up

gettin' lawyered up 06/05/2004 11:53 AM
Hiring a private criminal defense lawyer --the legal implications and ramifications of our President's (and veep's) move--by John Dean

The Net is gettin' messy

The Net is gettin' messy 04/29/2004 06:16 AM

Eric Norlin has something to say......ting.

The Net's is gettin Messy

COMMENTARY--Among the open source community there's a commonly used acronym, "POGE." It stands for the "principle of good enough," and it's meant to emphasize the open source tenet that you don't begin a project by over-engineering the end result. Instead, you do what is "good enough" and then let things improve over time.

The Net started this way. In the beginning, it was "good enough." Good enough for some forms of communication. Good enough for posting documents that linked to other documents. Good enough for putting dirty pictures online.

But lately, the Net is no longer good enough: identity fraud, viruses, worms, phishing, snarfing, child porn – oh, and endless piles of spam. All of these problems exist because the Net's core infrastructure –its architectural essence is no longer "good enough."

The bottom line is this: the endless schemes, scams, and shams that now dominate the Net are quickly dragging us toward a future wherein the Net as we know it is basically unusable. Put plainly: the Net's getting messy.

Learning from the dinosaurs
The cause of this messiness may be inherent in the structure of networks--that is, if you buy into modern science. The field of complexity theory might argue that the current state of the Internet is just a natural phase in the evolution of networks.

It seems that self-organizing networks (from ecosystems to economies) start with a few connections and, through a process called auto-catalysis, bring more and more connections into being--often with those connections forming around "super-nodes." These super-nodes and connections go through a growth phase that is marked by relative stability. But as the growth continues, so does the number of connections. Eventually, the number of connections is unstable and the system moves toward the "edge of chaos"--that place where the network is in danger of losing its inherent utility and stability. At this point, either the network falls over the edge (i.e., the dinosaurs) or recovers and evolves into something different (i.e. recovering from a recession).

The Internet is not meant for commerce
The Internet was never built for commerce. It was designed more than 30 years ago as a communications system that still closely resembled the structure of ancient communication systems: post, view, reply. Tim Berners-Lee completed the original software for the Net in 1991, adding the "link" variable, which is what made the Internet so powerful. Still, at its core, the Net was built with one assumption: if you were using it, you had been granted the right privileges for access. That assumption came from the simple fact that you didn't get on this "Net" unless you were working at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) or on a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Michigan, which received the initial contract from the Department of Defense to begin working on the network that became the Internet.

The Net's model of interaction was built to present, represent and point to other pieces of information. But this model of interaction is not the model of interaction that we use in the "real world"--the worlds of social interaction or commerce. As such, the Net's core architecture is unable to adequately accommodate the higher level commercial and social activities that people are now attempting on it. These activities are becoming increasingly exposed via Web services, auction sites and social networking services, for example

In order to accommodate those activities, like commerce and social interaction, that more closely models the "networking" of the real world, the Net needs a well defined sense of identity.

Moving beyond anonymity
The Net's sense of anonymity (or rather, its sense of physical location as a proxy for identity) has been "good enough," to this point. But as the Net becomes more integrated with mission-critical business systems and with the mission-critical components of our everyday lives, it is essential that the Net retain its greatest strengths and evolve to meet the challenges of identity.

Arguably, the Net's greatest strength has been its distributed nature. Moving toward a Net with a sense of identity must recognize and exploit this architecture. As such, the emerging and maturing specifications from groups like the Security Services Technical Committee at OASIS (the group working on the Security Assertion Markup Language, or "SAML"), the Liberty Alliance and the WS-Federation working group are doing the right thing by insisting that existing identity information remain distributed, while becoming linked and more useful.

Granted, the steps these specifications are taking are just the first evolution in a larger process. But these important first steps need to be realized for what they are: good enough. These specifications are good enough in that they are laying the initial groundwork for a much larger undertaking--an Internet with a fine-grained, end-user controlled sense of identity.

As the Internet gains a sense of identity, many important decisions will be made about privacy, piracy and security. But the movement toward that Internet with an identity is nearly inexorable. Without that sense of identity, however, the Net as we know it today will eventually reach a point of being nearly unusable for anything other than posting and viewing web pages.

biography
Eric Norlin is the SVP of Strategic Marketing for Ping Identity Corporation, a company focused on federated identity management. This article, and specifically its title, was the result of a late day conversation that Eric had with Andre Durand, Ping Identity's CEO.

Gettin' Lazy on the Job: PHP and
Databases

Gettin' Lazy on the Job: PHP and
Databases 10/23/2002 08:04 AM

Gettin' Funky With Chattem

Gettin' Funky With Chattem 09/17/2004 04:23 PM
Is Chattem good enough for your portfolio?

The Net's gettin' messy

The Net's gettin' messy 04/22/2004 09:23 AM
ZDNet Apr 22 2004 2:08PM GMT

QA Lead

QA Lead 03/19/2005 02:10 AM
Trovare - United States, California, San Francisco (2005-03-17)

HP extends PDA lead

HP extends PDA lead 07/21/2004 07:44 AM
PalmOne Treo purchase pays off in EMEA

QA Manager/Lead

QA Manager/Lead 06/03/2004 01:42 PM
Yahoo! Inc. - United States, CA, Sunnyvale (2004-06-03)

Will Apple Keep the Lead?

Will Apple Keep the Lead? 01/04/2004 06:10 AM
The New York Post writes about how Apple is the best position its been in for some time with the success of its most recent line of Macs, the iPod and...

Technical Lead

Technical Lead 06/30/2004 07:46 PM
Sophos - Canada, BC, Vancouver (2004-06-30)

Government to lead the way in IT

Government to lead the way in IT 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
Silicon.com Jan 9 2004 5:09AM ET

Mac Keeps Lead on Linux

Mac Keeps Lead on Linux 08/09/2004 05:33 AM
This year Linux will surpass the Mac as the No. 2 desktop operating system, PC giant Hewlett-Packard predicts. Some analysts say it's already happened. But not so fast: nobody's accounting for piracy. By Leander Kahney.

Lead Developer

Lead Developer 03/22/2005 04:32 PM
ReThink Recruitment Solutions Ltd - United Kingdom, Hampshire, Aldershot (2005-03-22)

Internet lead

Internet lead 04/02/2005 02:46 AM
The Scotsman Apr 2 2005 5:45AM GMT

Burying the Lead

Burying the Lead 08/30/2004 11:44 AM
"I could be dead when you read this," writes former Washington Post reporter Chalmers Roberts in the feel-good story of the year. "I am a 93-year-old man with congestive heart failure."

Like a Lead Zeppelin

Like a Lead Zeppelin 05/15/2004 09:57 PM

The two big mistakes Six Apart made with Movable Type 3.0.

Lead and Gold

Lead and Gold 08/12/2004 05:14 PM
Who made it important to find out about? Kerry's Campaign .. Craig Henry nails it:

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Intel to cut lead use

Intel to cut lead use 04/11/2004 06:24 PM
Australian IT Apr 11 2004 11:17PM GMT

Golf: US duo lead

Golf: US duo lead 04/10/2004 08:23 PM
Chris DiMarco and Phil Mickelson will take a two-shot lead into the final round.

Giants Take Lead in Technology

Giants Take Lead in Technology 04/28/2004 05:58 AM
The San Francisco Giants made a splash this baseball season by setting up a free Wi-Fi network in their waterfront ballpark, but CIO Bill Schlough says that's just part of the team's tech strategy. Wired News interview by Michael Myser.

Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer 04/08/2005 10:33 AM
Tellme Networks - United States, CA, Mountain View (2005-04-07)

Sun and IBM to lead 64-bit boom -
analyst

Sun and IBM to lead 64-bit boom -
analyst 01/02/2004 07:30 PM
On AMD's back

'e-gov will lead India towards
innovation'

'e-gov will lead India towards
innovation' 12/20/2003 09:50 AM
Cyber India Online Dec 20 2003 8:50AM ET

HP and IBM lead support pack

HP and IBM lead support pack 10/31/2003 09:27 AM
ZDNet UK Oct 31 2003 8:33AM ET

Rockets Rip Lakers 102-91, Cut L.A. Lead
(AP)

Rockets Rip Lakers 102-91, Cut L.A. Lead
(AP) 04/24/2004 12:24 AM
AP - The Houston Rockets defeated the Lakers 102-91 Friday night, cutting Los Angeles' lead to 2-1 in their best-of-seven Western Conference playoff series.

MJ fires his lead lawyers

MJ fires his lead lawyers 04/27/2004 01:06 PM
always a sign that things are going well

Lead and they will follow: WinExpose.
...

Lead and they will follow: WinExpose.
... 01/09/2004 09:51 PM

Lead and they will follow: WinExpose.

8:20 PM | Chris Cummer

Lead Software Developer

Lead Software Developer 01/06/2005 05:35 PM
Oversee.net - United States, California, Los Angeles (2005-01-06)

HP regains lead in PC shipments in Q4

HP regains lead in PC shipments in Q4 01/16/2004 10:59 AM
IDC and Gartner Inc. both found that HP pulled ahead of Dell in worldwide shipments of PCs during the fourth quarter, which is traditionally a strong one for consumer PC purchases.

HP holds storage lead in Q4

HP holds storage lead in Q4 03/06/2004 01:59 AM
The Register Mar 5 2004 4:44PM GMT

NCR CEO to lead Hewlett-Packard

NCR CEO to lead Hewlett-Packard 03/30/2005 07:22 AM
bizjournals.com Mar 30 2005 10:39AM GMT

Lead Electric Triangle

Lead Electric Triangle 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
I can't believe I just discovered the live music section of the Internet Archive today. Through their feed, I was notified of a new Glen Phillips recording. Boom! Live concerts are mere megabytes away from my media player. Even satellite radio can't touch this kind of convenience....

Lead Perl Web Developer

Lead Perl Web Developer 03/30/2005 02:01 PM
J.P Recruiting - Canada, Ontario, Toronto (2005-03-30)

Intel Working to Get the Lead Out

Intel Working to Get the Lead Out 04/09/2004 10:29 PM
Capitol Reports Apr 10 2004 2:18AM GMT

Intel To Keep Notebook Lead

Intel To Keep Notebook Lead 12/29/2004 01:05 AM
AMD Zone Dec 29 2004 4:57AM GMT

Lead Frontend Developer

Lead Frontend Developer 02/10/2004 02:46 AM
Chris spends far too much time for his own good on his free PHP and Javascript resources, scripts and applications at http://www.onlinetools.org/ and writing ...

New Mob Informants Lead to Indictments
(AP)

New Mob Informants Lead to Indictments
(AP) 07/24/2004 02:54 PM
AP - For 23 years, it was an unsolvable crime: a mob hit on three Bonanno family captains, slaughtered by machine gun fire in a social club.
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