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One does not simply contact ASD; but when an envoy of one of the seven Great Houses of Defense contact you, humble words of surprise are invoked, mainly because a lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep....

Stop me if you've heard this one before, X11Forwarding is bad, because the ISM doesn't tell us so.

Let me start by giving some context around this problem; You have a Piece Of Software that you need to run on your Linux Server somewhere in your environment, that's cool. However this 'PoS' requires a GUI for it to be used/managed and you need to be able to administer this machine remotely, that's bad if you intend do do this via X11 Forwarding over SSH; and I'll explain why....

So I was off doing family and friends things over the break, and I though it would also be a good idea for me to have a stab at a visual representation of the ISM I've been wanting to do for a while. Also, since it has been a bit quiet for me on the ISM front for a while (and I've heard squat from ASD about ISM2015 yet), I decided to sate my own appetite and provide some visual representation....

I'm generalizing through my own experiences and those of 95% of everyone I've spoken to on this topic, that ASD's engagement (read two-way communication) with the populous that try to decipher and implement the ISM in their day-to-day, is somewhat of a disconnect....

Massive step forward for me, I have finished tarting up my single-page HTML format output, it looks shiny and has a new document navigator bar at the top. My only annoyance is anchor links are obscured by the navigator bar, but I can't be arsed fixing that at the moment....

So the ISM Policy Team are seeking feedback again related to the new version of the ISM namely the 2015 edition. As it happens I have been providing guidance on some recent topics that could do with a spruce up; Read on :-)...

So I've been plodding along with the Mobile Guidance Browser (GuiBro) application very slowly and I'm just not feeling it is giving me the functionality I know I want out of the tool at end of the day. A couple of people from the ISM-Beta testers team have been sent the Android apk for testing....