Web Services: Challenges and Solutions
- Still-growing collection of technologies to design and standardize:
- communication protocol
- addressing
- description of services
- interactions
- security
- privacy
- policy
- many more pieces
- Must design ... especially, the core WS standards
... to be:
- Technically-sound
- Web-friendly
- Broadly-supported
- Interoperable
- Widely-deployable
- Semantically-clear
- W3C supports these goals through ...
- W3C Process (vendor neutrality, consensus, public accountability, cross group coord., liaising ...)
- Royalty-Free Patent Policy (Benefits)
- Technical Architecture Group
- Leadership: Membership
- Leadership: Staff (Director, Team, Hosts, Offices)