Re: lets vote for better security

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 04/11/05 

Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:38:45 -0700

"Michael Pelletier" <mjpelletier@mjpelletier.com> wrote in message
news:ix56e.31346$Xs.2907@fed1read03...
> step_y@yahoo.com wrote:
>

I am going to focus on one item only from your list
as you seem to be particularly uninformed on this

> 2) Stop bastardizing the standards. Let's face it, Microsoft is not a
> company known for developing new Standards on it's own (that work well and
> are well thought out). Let's face it, when technology people around the
> World get together to develop a standard they do a much better job than
> you.
>

I could not being to list the participation of MS in IETF working
groups on standards evolution.
I recall when XML started to catch on, hearing people yelling
"wake up MS, XML is the future" but failing to realize MS had
a deep committment to and involvement in XML well before
many companies started.

Let's see. Who helped kill off the Netscape proprietary attempt
at how to use client-side scripting (jss), and contributed much
toward the browser doc object model?

Have you hear of WS* for webservices? or webservices for
that matter ? You should look at what companies had members
chairing this evolution, contributing resources and intellectual
property into this effort to establish a future, full interoperability.
!!!

Tell me where MS implementation of DNS does not meet the
RFCs for DNS. Tell me. Yet there are likely more DNS
servers running on Windows today than any other variant,
hands down; and it is these that have pioneered actual use
of service location via DNS.

IP v4 transition to IP v6. Heard of that? Which companies
can you name that now support it off-the-shelf?

Which OS can you think of with the most complete implementation
of CIM to support cross-platform monitoring and management of
running systems ?

Who controls C# ?? Who Java ??

You really need to do a little research on the issue of committment to
standards compliance and to standards evolution within the defined
IETF processes. Perhaps you should look at the membership of some
of those working groups that have been for years and currently are
shaping today's and tomorrow's computing and networked environment. 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows  Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA