IN AN ATTEMPT to answer interoperability questions about its implementation of Kerberos security in Windows 2000, Microsoft is finally preparing to reveal a key proprietary data format it has been guarding for nearly two years.

Although IT executives and standards watchers have hoped that Microsoft would publish the data format, they are now concerned about a possible Microsoft plan to license the technology instead of making it freely available. They say that action would continue to needlessly tie Kerberos users to Windows 2000.

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