{"id":512,"date":"2008-04-14T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/14\/rsa-wrapup\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T04:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T13:11:00","slug":"rsa-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/14\/rsa-wrapup\/","title":{"rendered":"RSA Wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Well, I really really enjoyed going to RSA. As I foresaw, more than the event itself I really appreciated the chance of meeting with very smart people: the Concordia and the OSIS events were truly exceptional in this sense. <A href=\"http:\/\/ignisvulpis.blogspot.com\/\">Axel<\/A> captured some of that spirit <A href=\"http:\/\/ignisvulpis.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/osis-interop-fotos.html\">here<\/A>. Just to mention a few notable encounters:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>I spent some quality time with <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/superpat\/\">Pat Patterson<\/A>, mainly discussing <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0321496841\">the book<\/A>. I really really appreciated his honesty and his feedback, he truly read <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0321496841\">the book<\/A> with attention and his remarks were always on point: we&#8217;ll make sure to incorporate them in the next revision of the book, and in fact some of the points he rose are so important that I may blog about them for clarifying. I just loved the chance of seeing things through his eyes, discussing mainly with colleagues carries the risk of falling in groupthink and I feel this was very beneficial for me. Unfortunately we didn&#8217;t have more occasions of sharing our views, but I hope there will be other chances soon. Thanks Pat!<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I finally met the famous <A href=\"http:\/\/eternaloptimist.wordpress.com\/\">Pamela Dingle<\/A> \ud83d\ude42 Pam is great, her passion on those matters unparalleled. She gave a great presentation on the IdM, despite it was in the earliest slot the day after the Ping party (great party BTW, thanks Andre&#8217;). We had various discussions during the RSA week. For what I can tell she has a clear predisposition to the interface &amp; interactive aspect, while I concentrate more on the protocol angle: that makes us very good conversation buddies \ud83d\ude09<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Vijay from FuGen showed me a great Concordia demo&#8230; in Italian! That surely caught me off balance \ud83d\ude42<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>At the identity gang dinner I was sitting with <A href=\"http:\/\/www.links.org\/\">Ben Laurie<\/A>, <A href=\"http:\/\/virtualsoul.org\/blog\/\">Dale Olds<\/A>, <A href=\"http:\/\/notabob.blogspot.com\/\">Bob Blakely<\/A>, Pam, Caleb and Nigel. We didn&#8217;t discuss identity at all, but it was great nonetheless. Talking with smart people is a pleasure; it was quite some time I didn&#8217;t have such a broad scope conversation. Two days later Dale gave a presentation about his experience with Bandit and OSIS which I really enjoyed.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I spent some time discussing R-STSes and PPID generation strategies with a very nice guy from Oracle: I think he was Ramana, but I don&#8217;t remember for sure. I&#8217;ll check it, apologies!<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I had the chance of shaking hands with <A href=\"http:\/\/incontextblog.com\/\">Paul Trevithick<\/A>, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.equalsdrummond.name\/\">Drummond Reed<\/A> and <A href=\"http:\/\/itickr.com\/\">Ashish Jain<\/A>. I also had a very pleasant exchange with a guy from CA, but I can&#8217;t remember his name \ud83d\ude41 shame on me<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Through the week I spent some time with Christian Paquin. He really does not match with the stereotype of the cryptographer, he&#8217;s a very open &amp; pleasant guy. In fact, he was very patient and after some brainstorming with <A href=\"http:\/\/self-issued.info\/\">Mike<\/A> he took the time to walk me through the details (though not the GORY details) of U-Prove. And you know what, that&#8217;s revolutionary: it&#8217;s really going to rock the boat.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I&#8217;ve seen a very good presentation from a Sun architect, <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/yvonne\/\">Yvonne Wilson<\/A>, and we had a brief chat. I hope there will be more occasions to exchange ideas, I truly admired her no-nonsense and lucid approach to architecture. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>And of course I really enjoyed the chance to hang out with my buddies Caleb, Nigel, Mike, Donovan, Sam, Jan, Chuck&#8230; the funniest episode happened with Caleb and Nigel. We went to a restaurant which required 30 mins for seating us: I voted for leaving, they voted for waiting. I waited, yes, but for the subsequent 30 mins I went in &#8216;English strike&#8221;: that is to say, I spoke to them exclusively in Italian even if they don&#8217;t understand a word of it \ud83d\ude42 it was hilarious, until we discovered that the waitress spoke Italian too&#8230;<\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P>and I&#8217;m failing to mention quite a lot of people, both because I am horrible with names and because in some case I had very little chance to talk.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I would not be honest if I would not mention two things that really made me super happy: the many praises for <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0321496841\">the book<\/A> and for <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=241455\">the Channel9 video on WS-Trust<\/A>. It&#8217;s true that I am very recognizable (hey, that&#8217;s got to be the euphemism of the quarter), but I really really didn&#8217;t expect people to stop me at sessions or in the aisles to tell me nice things&#8230; the biggest satisfaction came when a number of identirati told Caleb and me that they are glad we wrote <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0321496841\">the book,<\/A> and that very often they answer to identity questions by referencing parts of the text. Needless to say, those identirati work on non-Microsoft platforms&#8230; this is <EM>fantastic <\/EM>validation that we obtained one of the goals we had in mind for <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0321496841\">the book<\/A>.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I can only hope that Catalyst will be in the same style!<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I really really enjoyed going to RSA. 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