I've decided to try blogging again on work related stuff, mainly about web service security standards, on a new site, unverifiedclaims.com. Seemed appropriate. I plan to keep this place around to point to stuff that may be "off topic". Basically this will be a venting place as I try to blog more often so I don't have to always censor myself as not being "on topic".

Oh, and for any friends or family reading this who still don't understand what I do we just published a paper I wrote with some colleagues here at Microsoft and at IBM. It's titled "Understanding WS-Federation" and shows the usage of the specification in the title in a variety of scenarios. I'm very proud to have been involved in authoring that paper. I think it does a good job of demonstrating some of the key features of the spec to people familiar with web services but haven't looked at this spec yet. For those of you who are not in this industry it might not help you understand the topic, but it will demonstrate that I actually do work. And that work quite obviously involves typing, drawing pretty pictures and lots and lots of acronyms. :-) I'll post some actual thoughts about this on my new site when I'm not so tired.