Posts with keyword: registry


Registering Identity

A couple of bills caught my attention today. Both bills, under consideration by the Utah Legislature, deal with identity. The first, HB158 would require convicted sex offenders to renew their driver's license yearly. The idea is that while sex offenders are under no pressure to keep their data current in the state's online sex offender registry, they need a driver's license. The bill turns a manual process of checking into a more automatic process where renewing a driver's license updates the registry. The second, HB429, places restrictions on the sale of components used to make meth. Anyone purchasing medicines
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SOA Governance Questions

As I work on my SOA governance story, I came up with a list of questions for companies about SOA governance. Feel free to leave comments or to contact my directly with answers and ideas. As I dig into this, it's clear there's a book waiting to be written around this topic. How would you characterize the stage your company is at in deploying SOA-based systems? (some examples; pilot, beginning, advanced) Do you have a strong Enterprise IT Governance process now? If so, how is you SOA governance related to IT governance? Is it just a piece of it
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InfoWorld Articles

I've recently had a couple of articles in InfoWorld. The first was an analysis piece a few weeks ago regarding IBM's acquisition of Datapower. The second is a review of Systinet Registry 6.0. I found Registry to be a full-featured and mature registry offering. The review is in the same issue that contains Eric Knorr and Oliiver Rist's 10 Steps to SOA. Registries are step five. I agree with the assessment that registries of some kind are essential to production-level SOA deployments, even if I'm not sold on UDDI.
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