Domino Web Access will now use S/MIME as the default form of encryption and signing, but the choice to override and use Lotus Notes as the default setting, if desired, is an option. Domino Web Access will look in the DWA contact list and the Lotus Domino directory for Internet certificates and use them if they are present. If the Internet certificate of the message recipient is not found, Domino Web Access will use Lotus Notes public key encryption.

DominoPower reader David Klimas: Today in ND6 when opening a view that has several changes to the underlying documents there is an indexing process. Depending on various factors, this could take a while to reindex. If the data is stored in NFSDB2, will this 'view indexing' delay be eliminated?

Ed and Rob: With NSFDB2, some of the data indexing processes are offloaded to the DB2 server. An example of this is that a DB2 Query View in Domino 7 uses the DB2 server to query and deliver the data to the Notes client.

DominoPower reader Tayfun Karabayir: What are the new enhancements for Web password management and will there be more of this?

Ed and Rob: In Domino 7.0, the single sign-on feature has been enhanced to support additional flexibility in naming for LTPA [Lightweight Third Party Authentication] tokens. Similar to the user ID factor, password management is an area of ongoing investigation for future releases.

DominoPower reader Leif Lagebrand: In ND7, it is easy to program a Web Service that other servers can consume. Why can't ND7 consume a Web Service in the same easy way?

Ed and Rob: We understand the developer community's strong desire to easily consume Web services. This capability is on the Web Services roadmap for Lotus Domino and is planned for a future release.

One reader, a whole lot of questions
DominoPower reader Richard Duffy asks a whole series of excellent questions.

Richard: Regarding N7, when are we going to get a better GUI interface for end users?

Ed and Rob: With the recent announcement of the "Hannover" release of the Lotus Notes client, IBM intends to further improve the Lotus Notes interface even beyond the new capabilities in Lotus Notes 7.

Richard: Why no Linux offering for Notes and Domino 7?

Ed and Rob: We have announced and demonstrated Lotus Notes running as a plug-in to the Eclipse-based IBM Workplace Managed Client on Linux. This capability is expected to be available for beta testing in late 2005.

Richard: If a task dies, we have to restart the whole server. Why can't Domino 7 be designed in a way that all we have to do is restart the task which would automatically clear off any associated memory segments/semaphores?

Ed and Rob: An internal design decision was made not to allow this to maximize reliability and supportability of the server.

Richard: Why is D7 licensed differently on zSeries compared to all the other platforms?

Ed and Rob: The licensing model for Domino on zSeries servers is known as the monthly license charge and is IBM's common method of licensing most zOS software.