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Ugh! There's an App for That!

Phil Windley

Summary: Interoperability is a fundamental property of tech systems that are generative and respect individual privacy and autonomy. In short, it's an interoperability nightmare. Writing in Communications of the ACM , Cory Doctorow discusses what can be done and hits upon a conceptually simple answer: enforce interoperability.

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Electronic bag tags are ready for take-off: Here’s what we learned on multiple flights with one

GeekWire

Alaska Airlines has made electronic bag tags available to elite Mileage Plan members, with a broader rollout planned in the first half of this year. Walking into Sea-Tac Airport for a Friday afternoon flight, I glanced smugly at the people huddled around the Alaska Airlines self-serve kiosks to print bag tags. Alaska is the first U.S.

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Passwords Are Ruining the Web

Phil Windley

Passwordless options can be more secure, and even more interoperable, with a better UX than passwords. Tags: identity passwords authentication ssi. Technologies like FIDO2, WebAuthn, and SSI allow for passwordless user experiences on the web as well as mobile. The kicker is that this isn't a trade off with security. Everybody wins.

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Google Calendar adds RSVP options for attending events virtually

The Verge

It also fits with the vision Google seems to be pushing for Workspace as a more fluid, interoperable space for productivity to happen, connecting products together (allowing Meet video calls to be nestled right next to a Google Doc), letting you @ tag someone, and accommodating flexible work schedules with statuses and custom notifications.

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DIDComm and the Self-Sovereign Internet

Phil Windley

DIDComm messaging is more important than most understand, providing a secure, interoperable, and flexible general messaging overlay for the entire internet. Interoperable. As an interoperable protocol, DIDComm is not dependent on a specific operating system, programming language, vendor, network, hardware platform, or ledger 3.

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Comparing X.509 Certificates with SSI

Phil Windley

Verifiable credentials provide better interoperability. 509 credentials can be used to prove the kind of information in the mortgage example in an interoperable way. Tags: ssi identity x.509 As far as I know, X.509 I know of no standards for how X.509 The high-level goals of X.509 The resolution need not be global or public.

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Link Aggregation and VLAN Trunking with Brocade FastIron Switches

Scott Lowe

Although VLANs are (generally) interoperable between different switch vendors due to the broad adoption of the 802.1Q To add a port to that VLAN, so that traffic across that port is tagged for the specified VLAN, use the tagged ethernet <interface> command. Otherwise, a port carries only untagged or tagged traffic.

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