Who ya gonna trust?
By Adam Gaffin, NetworkWorld.com, 11/12/04
Phil Wainewright argues that
a lot of the current Web-services standards work is doomed to failure, because the people involved are trying to develop technology, rather than codify, well, standard practices:
... If standards bodies were supposed to innovate, they'd be called innovation bodies. Standards, by definition, can't be innovative. This is the trouble with all the work currently being put into the WS-* stack. Talented people are wasting time and resources devising capabilities that will never, ever be used. Only those specs that reflect established, proven practices will successfully become durable standards. ...
He uses
UDDI as a case study of this:
... UDDI 1.0 was a classic case of a standard that tried to be innovative. No wonder no one used it. It missed out on a vital ingredient, because the geeks who designed it wanted the machines to do everything without having to involve human beings at all. So they missed out the element of trust. ...
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