The charter period of this Working Group ended in January 2004. Technical discussion of the Web Services Architecture still takes place on the www-ws-arch public mailing list.
Charter · Documents · Issues list · Meeting records · Discussion lists · Participants (IPR declarations) · Related resources
Supporting documents:
The Working Group has maintained an issues list. The process used to administer the issues list is documented in the Web Services Architecture Issues Process.
For the very latest changes on the documents, please see the Working Group's CVS area:
See also the editorial to-do list.
This section gathers proposals that have been made by task forces that the Working Group created. These proposals do not necessarily represent consensus of the Working Group.
Technical discussions of the Web Services Architecture take place on the public www-ws-arch@w3.org mailing list:
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Administrative issues were discussed on the Member only mailing list w3c-ws-arch. See the administrative page (Member only) for more details.
Both mailing lists use the archive approval system.
Meetings in 2004:
Meetings in 2003:
Meetings in 2002:
The Web Services Architecture Working Group was composed of:
| Name | Organization | IPR claims |
|---|---|---|
| Geoff Arnold | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | no |
| Mukund Balasubramanian | Infravio, Inc. | no |
| Mike Ballantyne | EDS | no |
| Abbie Barbir | Nortel Networks | no |
| David Booth | W3C | no |
| Mike Brumbelow | Apple | no |
| Doug Bunting | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | no |
| Greg Carpenter | Nokia | incomplete disclosure (see Nokia's declaration) |
| Tom Carroll | W. W. Grainger, Inc. | no |
| Alex Cheng | Ipedo | no |
| Michael Champion | Software AG | no (see Mike's declaration) |
| Martin Chapman | Oracle Corporation | no |
| Ugo Corda | SeeBeyond Technology Corporation | no |
| Roger Cutler | ChevronTexaco | no |
| Jonathan Dale | Fujitsu | no |
| Suresh Damodaran | Sterling Commerce(SBC) | no |
| James Davenport | MITRE Corporation | no |
| Paul Denning | MITRE Corporation | no |
| Gerald Edgar | The Boeing Company | no |
| Shishir Garg | France Telecom | no |
| Hugo Haas | W3C | no |
| Hao He | The Thomson Corporation | no |
| Dave Hollander | Contivo | no (see Dave's declaration) |
| Yin-Leng Husband | Hewlett-Packard Company | yes (RF) (see Hewlett-Packard's declaration) |
| Mario Jeckle | DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology | no |
| Heather Kreger | IBM | no |
| Sandeep Kumar | Cisco Systems Inc | no |
| Hal Lockhart | OASIS | no |
| Michael Mahan | Nokia | incomplete disclosure (see Nokia's declaration) |
| Francis McCabe | Fujitsu | no |
| Michael Mealling | VeriSign, Inc. | no |
| Jeff Mischkinsky | Oracle Corporation | no |
| Eric Newcomer | IONA | no |
| Mark Nottingham | BEA Systems | no |
| David Orchard | BEA Systems | no |
| Bijan Parsia | MIND Lab | no |
| Adinarayana Sakala | IONA | no |
| Waqar Sadiq | EDS | no |
| Igor Sedukhin | Computer Associates | no |
| Hans-Peter Steiert | DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology | no |
| Katia Sycara | Carnegie Mellon University | no (see Katya's declaration) |
| Bryan Thompson | Hicks & Associates, Inc. | no |
| Sinisa Zimek | SAP | no |
Previous members of the Working Group were: Assaf Arkin (Intalio, Inc.), Daniel Austin (W. W. Grainger, Inc.), Mark Baker (Idokorro Mobile, Inc. / Planetfred, Inc.), Tom Bradford (XQRL, Inc.), Allen Brown (Microsoft Corporation), Dipto Chakravarty (Artesia Technologies), Jun Chen (MartSoft Corp.), Alan Davies (SeeBeyond Technology Corporation), Glen Daniels (Macromedia), Ayse Dilber (AT&T), Zulah Eckert (Hewlett-Packard Company), Colleen Evans (Sonic Software), Chris Ferris (IBM), Daniela Florescu (XQRL Inc.), Sharad Garg (Intel), Mark Hapner (Sun Microsystems, Inc.), Joseph Hui (Exodus/Digital Island), Michael Hui (Computer Associates), Nigel Hutchison (Software AG), Marcel Jemio (DISA), Mark Jones (AT&T), Timothy Jones (CrossWeave, Inc.), Tom Jordahl (Macromedia), Jim Knutson (IBM), Steve Lind (AT&T), Mark Little (Arjuna), Bob Lojek (Intalio, Inc.), Anne Thomas Manes (Systinet), Jens Meinkoehn (T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft), Nilo Mitra (Ericsson), Don Mullen (TIBCO Software, Inc.), Himagiri Mukkamala (Sybase, Inc.), Joel Munter (Intel), Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (Microsoft Corporation), Duane Nickull (XML Global Technologies), David Noor (Rogue Wave Software), Srinivas Pandrangi (Ipedo), Kevin Perkins (Compaq), Mark Potts (Talking Blocks, Inc.), Fabio Riccardi (XQRL, Inc.), Don Robertson (Documentum), Darran Rolls (Waveset Technologies, Inc.), Krishna Sankar (Cisco Systems Inc), Jim Shur (Rogue Wave Software), Patrick Thompson (Rogue Wave Software), Steve Vinoski (IONA), Scott Vorthmann (TIBCO Software, Inc.), Jim Webber (Arjuna), Prasad Yendluri (webMethods, Inc.), Jin Yu (MartSoft Corp.) .
List for the roll call and for the acknowledgments section of the specifications.
Please refer to the Web Services Architecture Working Group patent disclosures document.
The following is suggested background reading:
See also the documents produced by the TAG and their homework section.
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