Issue-1: Should this Group be an Incubator or Working Group? Incubator seems the most logical path at this point.
[FOR DISCUSSION
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The Web Services technologies have become more mature in the past years and new challenges are now in consideration. There is a growing interest towards the use of Semantic Web techniques along with Web Services standards to target a broader range of functionalities.
The Semantic Web Services Interest Group has provided a way to gather a large community of academia and industry researchers. However, the Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services demonstrated that very few analysis of real-scale applications have been conducted so far. This results in lots of "ad-hoc" modelling, with monolithic approaches, around particular goals and no guarantee of usability and extensibility to general requirements. However, WSDL-S was considered a small but important step towards Semantic Web Services.
The mission of the Semantics for Web Services Characterization Group is to continue in the footprints of solutions like WSDL-S and study the field of applications and identify key points that are not immediately solved using Web services technologies. This characterization effort will demonstrate the existence of requirements, hence the need for one or more pieces of a framework for the use of Semantics in Web services. If it succeeds in this characterization work, the Group is expected to propose future directions of work in the domain of Semantics for Web Services.
Issue-2: we should say something on the scope here.
The goals of the Semantics for Web Services Characterization Group are to:
Issue-3: do we need an out of scope section?
The Semantics for Web Services Characterization Group has the following deliverables:
These are subject to revision due to editorial needs and external scheduling issues; updates will be negotiated with the related groups and recorded on the Semantics for Web Services Characterization Group home page.
The expected duration of the Group is 1 year, through 31 December 2006.
The Group should coordinate its efforts with W3C Groups, in particular in the Web Services Activity and the Semantic Web Activity, in particular:
Coordination will be managed through the Web Services Coordination Group.
The Group should also coordinate with relevant external Groups (see also the position papers for the Frameworks on Semantics in Web Services worshops).
See Issue-1.
The Semantics for Web Services Characterization Group provides an opportunity to share perspectives on Semantics for Web Services Characterization in general. W3C reminds Group participants of their obligation to comply with patent disclosure obligations as set out in Section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy. While the Group does not produce Recommendation-track documents, when Group participants review Recommendation-track specifications from other Groups, the patent disclosure obligations do apply.
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