> -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Document style web services > > At the same time, I cant help treating WS-I mandates with some less > seriousness than W3C. W3C are laying down the soap1.1 spec, the > foundations > of everything. WS-I are reprinting truckloads of specs that are being > published and mandated without going through the 'working code' > rigorousness > of IETF processs.
W3C is doing SOAP 1.2, not SOAP 1.1. SOAP 1.1 will never be standardized. Unfortunately, we still need to live with SOAP 1.1, with all its inconsistencies and inadequacies. WS-I is trying to solve the interop issues that result from the looseness of the SOAP 1.1 spec. And WS-I is basing their work on "working code". They draw from real implementations suffering from real interoperability issues, and they're designing a set of profiles (i.e., constraints) that you can follow to ensure that you build interoperable Web services. No -- these profiles aren't the foundation specs. And WS-I doesn't presume to call itself a standards organization. They are designing best practices. > It'd be nice if Sun got involved with Axis too. Not likely. They've got JWSDP. Anne
