Today morning (from 1:00 a.m to 2:00 a.m CET) Microsoft hosted a .NET Remoting chat.

The development team answered questions from users and told us about the features which are planned for future releases. The official chat transcript isn't online yet, so I quote from what I remember:

• Microsoft will release a sample application which provides authenticated Remoting for objects hosted outside IIS. In my opinion, this has been the missing feature #1 and some others in the chat agreed with this. Tomas and I therefore will focus on a different area and not implement the SSPI channel. Mike Woodring (who's been working on such a channel independently from us) also announced to stop the development of his channel.
• Microsoft will look into improving the performance of the HTTPChannel when hosted in IIS.
• The context implementation might be changed. This means that ContextBoundObject and things like context properties, context attributes and the interfaces like IContributeObjectSink, which aren't yet documented might be different in the next version.

This is not an official statement, it's just what I remember from the chat.

By the way, has anyone saved a log of this chat? If yes, could you please send it to me by email (rammer@sycom.at)? Thanks a lot!