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I'm going to defer to Dave Smiley, my director of standards at Mercator:
Sun's exclusion/omission/refusal to join WS-I has somewhat tempered the
initial enthusiasm for WS-I and their goal: "To promote Web services
interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming
languages". It will be difficult to reach this goal with Sun watching from
the sidelines or, worse yet for WS-I, providing negative commentary as the
game progresses. WS-I is interesting because the group itself is not
developing standards, but encouraging their development and acceptance. Many
of the members are involved in those other standards bodies where the work
is currently taking place. Ultimately, the relevance and success of WS-I
will be decided by the marketplace. If the money flows to those who carry
the WS-I "Seal of Approval", WS-I will have succeeded. -- David Smiley
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