Latest standards and regulations news.
Vendors hail Fibre Channel over Ethernet spec, 04/05/07
A group of storage vendors on Thursday proposed the development of a new specification that would allow the Fibre Channel storage-area networking protocol to run over Ethernet.
Web services security document published, 04/03/07
The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced on Tuesday publication of its WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0, serving as a guide to enable secure, interoperable Web services.
Don’t use WEP, say German security researchers, 04/04/07
The Wi-Fi security protocol WEP should not be relied on to protect sensitive material, according to three German security researchers who have discovered a faster way to crack it.
Legislation promotes federal teleworkers, 04/03/07
A pair of senators has introduced legislation that would pump up federal support for telework, enabling more government employees to work from home.
Microsoft’s Open XML takes next step toward becoming a standard, 04/02/07
Microsoft’s bid to have its Open XML file format approved as an ISO standard took another step forward Monday when that organization put the measure on a voting ballot sent to its member countries.
NeoScale proposes storage encryption interoperability network, 04/03/07
NeoScale Systems Tuesday announced it will use a standards-based security API for key management interoperability and outlined a plan for managing data encryption of customers with multi-vendor enterprise storage resources.
FCC says no to mobile calls on airplanes, 04/03/07
The FCC has ended a proceeding that would have allowed mobile phone calls on airplanes, for now ending the possibility of phone conversations during flights.
