W3C's Mission: Leading the Web to its Full Potential

Founded by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee in 1994, W3C is:

• Unique International Standards Organization
  • Providing the Vision to Lead
  • Engineering the Open Standards that Make the Web Work
• 19 Hosts/Offices: MIT | ERCIM | Keio | | Australia | Benelux/Bénélux | 中国 | Suomi | Deutschland und Österreich | Ελλάδα | 香港 | Magyarország | भारत | ישראל | Italia | 한국 | المغرب | España | Sverige | United Kingdom and Ireland | (map)

• 415 Members (history map, largest)
• 800 Technologists developing standards in 60 Groups
• 65 Member-neutral Technical Staff
• Accountable to the Global Public

(Membership / Benefits / "At a Glance" brochure)

Web Usage and Technologies are Evolving …

• From a Web of Documents …
• Toward One Web …
  • … of Data and Services
  • … on Everything
  • … for Everyone
• — think Web 2.0, Web as a platform, etc.

Web Architecture: Principles

• Global Identifiers (Use URI)
• Interaction: Safe retrieval, Reference does not imply dereference
• No principles for data formats
• Orthogonality
• Error recovery

From Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One

Service Oriented Architecture

Principles:

• Application as a set of services
• Service Metadata

Benefits

• Reuse
• Cost Reductions
• Agility

Web: What's missing?

• Security: identity, non-repudiation, etc.
• Service Description: Application modelling and visualization, code generation, configuration, resource management, orchestration, etc.

W3C Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing (end of February 2007)

SOA/Web Services: What's missing?

Going beyond SOAP/WSDL 1.1…

• sadly, Interoperability
• Service Description: resource management.
• Guidelines, industry profiles