The Rise and Fall of WS-I?
The Rise and Fall of WS-I
The value of standard organizations or in this case "interoperability organization" are questionable. Too often these organizations are a way of showing to the outside world that leading vendors are players and coming to the table.
Last year I made several attempts to contact a representative of the Web Services Interoperablity Organization to inteview them for my blog. After several attempts I frankly gave up. At this time I could see the start of the demise of this organization. If it is alive and kicking someone please let me know.
Standards and Coalition Organizations are only as good as the vendors driving them and the value they are deriving from them. I often use the following chart to characterize what vendors attitudes are when they go into these organizations - "What's in it for me!" is what drives their participation. It is actually a matter of value or "Reward" that a vendor can get out of these organizations. So you can see why there is a lot of "positioning" going on to maximun ones' own value. Don't get me wrong a lot of good comes out of many organizations such as OASIS, W3C, etc., but it does explain why it often takes so long to see any results. Also it explains why dominate vendors provide "lip service" to open standards, when these standards may threaten their dominance - however that is for another blog.
Proprietary vs. Open Standards
WS-I was organized to provide guidance and standards groupings in the form of "profiles" to assist in Web Services and SOA Interoperability. Initially they made some good headway with WS-I Basic Profile 1.0, WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 and more recently WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0. However it seems their momentum has hit the wall.
Erik Johnson in his blog outlines the current state of affairs with the WS-I Organization and makes recommendations on what can be done to correct matters:
WS-I and Transparency: WTF?
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Gary E. Smith
SOA Network Architect
The value of standard organizations or in this case "interoperability organization" are questionable. Too often these organizations are a way of showing to the outside world that leading vendors are players and coming to the table.
Last year I made several attempts to contact a representative of the Web Services Interoperablity Organization to inteview them for my blog. After several attempts I frankly gave up. At this time I could see the start of the demise of this organization. If it is alive and kicking someone please let me know.
Standards and Coalition Organizations are only as good as the vendors driving them and the value they are deriving from them. I often use the following chart to characterize what vendors attitudes are when they go into these organizations - "What's in it for me!" is what drives their participation. It is actually a matter of value or "Reward" that a vendor can get out of these organizations. So you can see why there is a lot of "positioning" going on to maximun ones' own value. Don't get me wrong a lot of good comes out of many organizations such as OASIS, W3C, etc., but it does explain why it often takes so long to see any results. Also it explains why dominate vendors provide "lip service" to open standards, when these standards may threaten their dominance - however that is for another blog.
Proprietary vs. Open Standards
WS-I was organized to provide guidance and standards groupings in the form of "profiles" to assist in Web Services and SOA Interoperability. Initially they made some good headway with WS-I Basic Profile 1.0, WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 and more recently WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0. However it seems their momentum has hit the wall.
Erik Johnson in his blog outlines the current state of affairs with the WS-I Organization and makes recommendations on what can be done to correct matters:
WS-I and Transparency: WTF?
_____________________________________________
>> Back to Main Page
Gary E. Smith
SOA Network Architect
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