Nothing is static. In time, almost anything that we have confidence in today will at some point be questioned or questionable. Finally, there are issues of customer preference. For whatever reason, some customers choose to standardize on specific security vendors, algorithms, implementations, and so on. By designing our product to enable a variety of plug-in implementations, and by enabling a number of them to be used concurrently, we feel that the architecture has more than enough flexibility to carry us forward through many years of service for a wide variety of customers worldwide.
Groove cleanly separates the notion of personal identity and device identity.
We did this for a variety of reasons, but perhaps most significantly because individuals are naturally dealing with more and more devices in their work and home environment. The notion of just keeping simple contact lists in sync between a PC, a cell phone, and a PDA, has spawned many a new company. Through a procedure involving only a few clicks, you can duplicate your account on any other supported device. After your account has been brought to that device, all of your activities on one device are naturally and automatically kept in sync with things that you do when using your other devices. It's that simple.