A laptop somewhere in my house is now hosting the HP SmartFrog team's implementation of the CDDLM deployment standard, as announced to the mail list.

It's home hosted because it offers public accessibility, with easy access during development. And, having it isolated from my work system lets me properly test long-haul deployment. There's no need for the simulated delays I hacked into Axis tcpmon back in 2002,because there really is a nice complex network between developer system and the public server. Being a laptop, I can always bring it in to work on the bike if needed.

I'm not worried about malicious people deploying stuff on my machine, because those tests are failing: its not a functional endpoint. More to the point, anyone so malicious would have to implement a WSRF client-side application and learn the CDL deployment language. And the WSRF client has to interop with my Alpine soap stack with its own WS-Addressing implementation. The risk is low, at least this week. It'd be easier for someone to crash the open network from my front garden. I have made sure the laptop has nothing of value, especially no SSH keys to anywhere interesting.