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<div>Response to Mark Wilkinson's 3/1/03 comments</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>As I understand it, the scenario Richard
wants us to support is protecting information from "prying eyes"
until they have signed a license agreement, or in a general case,
limiting access to MOBY Services to only certain people, while
excluding others.</blockquote>
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<div>It's funny how people have different views of things.
Mark's "prying eyes" idea is far from what I would like to
achieve. I would like everyone to use the (connectron)
information at I calculate about genomes. </div>
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<div>A little bit of history will serve to illustrate the source of my
view. On January 23rd of this year,<i> Nature</i> published its
issue on 50th anniversary of the publication of the discovery of the
DNA by Watson and Crick. The fifty-page section was sponsored by
Roche. The front and back covers of the section used a
computer-generated image of DNA that I calculated 25 years ago.
The attribution was "courtesy of the Div. of Computer Research &
Technology, NIH/SPL". SPL is Science Photo Library in
London where I lodged the best of the images for dissemination.
This was just great! I made hundreds of thousands of images over
a ten year period for many different scientists throughout the world.
Many of the images have been used in and on the covers of textbooks.
Some have an attribution comment and others do not. I'd argue
that fifty years from now there will be a similar celebration about
the discovery of connectrons and how they control differentiation and
development.</div>
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<div>My goal in this genomic information age is only to see that
people remember who calculated the information and to whom small
royalties must be paid.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Since MOBY is built on SOAP, and
MOBY-SOAP uses HTTP, and HTTP already<br>
has authentication, then MOBY already has authentication.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>I added a few lines to the Perl
MOBY::Client::Service module ...</blockquote>
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<div>I think that this is a perfectly adequate technical solution -
thanks!</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Problem solved? ... or did I
misunderstand the problem?</blockquote>
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<div>I'd say that this is a reasonable working solution to the
problem.</div>
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<div>Richard Feldmann.</div>
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