Web Service Description Group Update

Jonathan Marsh

Paris 12 June 2002

Deliverables

• Requirements Document
  • First Draft 29 April 2002
  • Second Draft Immanent
• Usage Scenarios
  • First Draft 4 June 2002
  Probably no second draft. Replaced by:
  • Web Services Usage Scenarios
  • Web Service Description Use Cases

Deliverables (cont.)

• Web Services Description Language:
  • Part 1: Framework; Part 2: Bindings
  • First Working Draft expected 30 June 2002
  • Work item: Abstract Components
  Schedule implies Last Call ~ October
• Primer:
  • Editor's outline
  • No date yet for First Working Draft

Deliverables (cont.)

• RDF Mapping
  • No substantial progress

Issues

• Extensibility mechanism
• MEPs
• Solicit-Response and Notifications
• Inheritance
• Service Type
• Schema element versus type
• Soap Bindings