“Congress, in its infinite wisdom, zeroed-out David
Brailer’s office,” said Newt Gingrich, the Republican
former House speaker, who is the founder of the Center for
Health Transformation, a health policy group. “They
couldn’t find $50 million to signal that David Brailer has
a real job and what he’s doing is important. Frankly, I
think it’s a disgrace.”
The Bush administration, Mr. Gingrich said, bore most of
the responsibility. “No one in the White House or in the
senior staff of the Department of Health and Human Services
fought for this,” he said.
Most of the investment for electronic health records and
networks for sharing information will now have to come from
private industry, probably billions of dollars over the
next several years.
The $50 million requested for Dr. Brailer’s office was to
have been used to provide seed money for health information
demonstration projects that would encourage the industry to
agree on technology standards, hasten investment by private
companies and accelerate the adoption of modern information
technology by doctors and hospitals.
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Meng Wong describes a framework called Aspen under which spam is addressed by authentication, accreditation and reputation. Accreditation, according to Wong, “lets third parties vouch for senders with whom they have a prior relationship.” Reputation is more of a ratings system for senders and accreditors.
“Over the last few months, a small group of email innovators have been working on developing a prototype for a next-generation email architecture. That architecture is based on the concepts of authentication, reputation, and accreditation developed at the Aspen Institute in Dec 2003 and embodied by standards like SPF, Sender ID, and DomainKeys. On Nov 16 that group will meet face to face for the first time. They plan to demonstrate their prototypes and test interoperability between them. These prototypes are an important step toward a spamproof email system. INBOX Event participants will be invited to a special demonstration in the afternoon. That demonstration will show the prototypes working together and invite discussion and feedback from the audience.” Get ready. Building on email authentication and digital signatures, reputation and accreditation systems are poised to enter the spotlight.
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eBay takes a giant leap in the Classifieds direction: a new feature that allows customers to post want ads for items they are looking to buy on its Web site.. Amazon has Wishlists, and now eBay does too… CNET:
The launch of the “Want It Now” feature represents a departure from eBay’s traditional setup, which allowed people to search the auctioneer’s listings, but didn’t give them the opportunity to display what sort of products they were looking to purchase.
The company also created a tool that allows individuals selling products on eBay to search the want ads and find buyers who might be interested in their auctions.
Using the system, registered eBay users can place a 30-day ad that describes what goods they would like to buy. The system gives anyone searching the postings access to the buyer’s background information, such as their community feedback rating and geographical location. The tool does not give sellers direct access to customers’ account names, but instead allows them to e-mail information on specific auctions to an eBay member, while keeping the potential buyer’s screen name anonymous.
The “Want It Now” tool appears to be catching on with eBay users already, despite the fact that the company has not yet publicly promoted the feature. eBay first started letting people post the ads Nov. 30. By Friday morning, close to 200 people had created want ads in the eBay Motors section of the company’s site, one of its most active product categories.
eBay expects the new feature to allow its customers to find the items they are looking to buy faster, while giving people selling items a chance to make sales more quickly. The company also believes the system will give its sellers a chance to gauge demand for specific categories of products.
The launch of the want ads represents eBay’s full-fledged entry into the classifieds sector, a business it recently stepped into when it bought a 25 percent stake in Craigslist.org, a bare-bones classifieds site operating in 45 major cities. In early November, eBay announced plans to buy Marktplaats.nl, a Dutch classified-advertising Web site, for about $290 million in cash.
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The long-term goal would be to design a fully functional decentralized system which resembles eBay without eBay’s dedicated, centralized infrastructure. Since security (authenticity, non-repudiation, trust, etc.) is key to any e-commerce infrastructure, our envisioned P2P e-commerce platform has to address this adequately. As the first step in this direction we present an approach for a completely decentralized P2P public key infrastructure (PKI) which can serve as the basis for higher-level security service. In contrast to other systems in this area, such as PGP which uses a “web of trust” concept, we use a statistical approach which allows us to provide an analytical model with provable guarantees, and quantify the behavior and specific properties of the PKI. To justify our claims we provide a first-order analysis and discuss its resilience against various known threats and attack scenarios.
In support of our belief that C2C E-commerce is one of the potential killer applications of the emerging structured P2P systems, we provide a layered model for P2P E-commerce, demonstrating the dependencies of various security related issues that can be built on top of a decentralized PKI.
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Health Care Technology Is a Promise Unfinanced
Health CareNew York Times:
Next Generation Email Architecture
Event Driven ArchitectureseWeek:
This is part of a next generation email architecture:
The Feedmesh, So Far
Event Driven ArchitecturesGreat summary by Phillip Pearson on the Feedmesh list…
Wanted: Your Ad on eBay
CommerceeBay takes a giant leap in the Classifieds direction: a new feature that allows customers to post want ads for items they are looking to buy on its Web site.. Amazon has Wishlists, and now eBay does too… CNET:
Beyond Web of Trust: Enabling P2P e-Commerce
DecentralizationBeyond “web of trust”: Enabling P2P E-commerce: