Adobe Systems Incorporated
Steve Zilles and Larry Masinter

Adobe Systems is a leader in the production of tools for designers
and developers to create compelling content. As Network Publishing
encompasses not just distribution of content, but provision
of services and experiences, we believe it is important to continue the
integration of publishing and inter-organizational collaboration.

In addition, the processes for document, image and creative content
production are distributed, and Adobe is creating an expanding set
of server-side capabilities; these require standardized mechanisms
for service integration.

The networking community has significant experience and investment
in the infrastructure for the development, discovery and communication
between elements of distributed applications. We are concerned that the
W3C not embark on a new effort to solve problems that have already been
well explored, without a serious review of the existing mechanisms
for resource and service discovery, capability exchange and system
management. Identifying the essential qualities that distinguish
"web services" from "Internet services" would seem like an important
task for this workshop.