[MOBY-l] How will MOBY provide for proprietary information suppliers?

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard J Feldmann <rjfeldma at erols.com> writes:

  Richard> I would like to discuss with you'all the idea of how I
  Richard> could supply proprietary information using BioMOBY.  From
  Richard> my point of view, all that would be necessary is that the
  Richard> user would have to do the equivalent of "breaking the
  Richard> software package seal".  This could be accomplished by
  Richard> having the potential information recipient print a form,
  Richard> sign it, and fax it to Global.  Global would then send
  Richard> BioMOBY a signal releasing the data to that person.  Anyone
  Richard> who had signed the form could then access the connectron
  Richard> structure of all genomes.


  Richard> I hope that we can come to a "balanced" view of this issue.


I'm not sure what "balanced" means. I guess it means one that
accomodates your own view point. This reminds me of the politicians
definition of "dogma" which is "everyone else's viewpoint is dogma,
while mine are just common sense".

Anyway, regardless, moby using a simple protocol to encode data from
server to client. It doesn't require a particular transport layer
though. So far it uses HTTP, which is insecure. You should be able to
use other mechanisms if you want, including most obviously https,
which gives you security, and the ability to control access as you
choose, and with a fair degree of security that data will not be
overheard. 

I don't know if anyone has tried it yet though. I'd be interested to
hear the results though. 

Cheers

Phil