W3C Talk
by Janet Daly

Table of contents

• Overview
• W3C - Background
• History of W3C's WS Activity(1)
• History of W3C's WS Activity (2)
• W3C Web Services: Challenges
• Integration to the World Wide Web
• The need for semantics
• Ontologies
• The Semantic Web
• Standardization work
• Web Services Activity at W3C
• Web Services Architecture
• Requirements of the Web services architecture
• Status of the Web Services Architecture Working Group
• Communicating between machines
• An XML-based protocol: SOAP version 1.2
• SOAP version 1.2 in a nutshell
• Status of the work on SOAP version 1.2
• Status of the work on SOAP version 1.2 (continued)
• A language to describe Web services: motivations
• Status of the Web Services Description Working Group
• Next steps