Politics, politics, politics.
Please remember that what is setting SPF above the rest has nothing to do
with the technical merits of the proposal. It is the adoption, the politics
that make it interesting.
Microsoft has the right politics for a long term infrastructure for
addressing a whole range of Internet security holes, not just this one
problem. SPF is a tactical play optimized for long term deployment.
I understand that at this point there are relatively few people in the
network admin community who really understand the gestalt of XML. But
comming from the program architecture world it is the alpha and omega of
future system designs.
At some point in the future all the internal interfaces of Windows will map
out to XML data structures. The same will be true of the bulk of UNIX
layered applications. There is a simple reason for this, with a modern
language like C# or the newer Java releases you can write a class 'X' and
then create a parser/generator method on X entirely automatically.
Over time this type of functionality will become even more tightly
integrated. If you want atomic transactions on a persistent structure of
class X you will simply tell the compiler to work out how to manage that. No
more hacking about in SQL just to persist a structure with ACID properties.
XML is the new ASCII. It will win in the end regardless of whether or not it
deserves to. Fortunately this time it is not that bad a choice.
Phill
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[mailto:owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com]On Behalf Of Peter
Bowyer
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [spf-discuss] XML Poll (Please respond only once)
Mark <admin(_at_)asarian-host(_dot_)net> wrote:
<a very balanced piece pointing out that there are reasons beyond the
technical ones for considering XML for SPFv2>
Hear, hear.
Peter
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