Don Box is a software developer currently working at Microsoft. Along with Bob Atkinson, Mohsen Al-Ghosein, and Dave Winer, Don was of the original four designers of SOAP, a basic messaging layer for web services. He currently works on Brad Lovering's team working on model-driven runtime and tool support at Microsoft. Prior to that, Don was an architect on Windows Communication Foundation (formerly known as Indigo) and related technologies. Wikipedia
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If I'm happy to eshew WSDL and program native XML, am I being inconsistent in wanting a a better authn story out of the box, which is what my allusion to WS-Security was implying? pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/