Re:Security (Score 1)

Passport is intended to be THE identification and authorization checkpoint for every service in .NET It's not as strong as you make it sound. .NET web services are not built on Passport authentication. Passport authentication is built on top of .NET web services (aka SOAP). That's certainly not to say that MS won't push for Passport authentication by making it free-n-easy to use, but it's not required to make functioning webservices with .NET