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Web Services Architecture Working Group
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
Documents
Published Documents
- Web Services Architecture (2004-02-11)
Supporting documents:
- Web Services Architecture Requirements (2004-02-11)
- Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11)
- Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios (2004-02-11)
- Web Service Management: Service Life Cycle (2004-02-11)
- OWL ontology
Earlier publications
- Web Services Architecture Requirements (2002-11-14)
- Web Services Architecture (2003-08-08)
- Web Services Glossary (2003-08-08)
- Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios (2003-05-14)
- Web Services Architecture (2003-05-14)
- Web Services Glossary (2003-05-14)
- Web Services Architecture (2002-11-14)
- Web Services Glossary (2002-11-14)
- Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios (2002-07-30)
- Web Services Architecture Requirements (2002-10-11)
- Web Services Architecture Requirements (2002-08-19)
- Web Services Architecture Requirements (2002-04-29)
Issues list
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.
Editors' copies (out of date)
Latest versions
For the very latest changes on the documents, please see the Working Group's CVS area:
- Web Services Architecture (latest version)
- Web Services Glossary (latest version)
- Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios (latest version)
- Web Services Architecture Requirements (latest version)
See also the editorial to-do list.
Previous versions
- Web Services Architecture (2003-07-21) — see announcement
- Web Services Architecture (2003-05-01) — see announcement
- Web Services Glossary (2003-04-30) — see announcement
- Web Services Architecture (2003-03-28)
- Web Services Glossary (2003-02-14) — see announcement
- Web Services Architecture (2002-08-21)
- Web Services Architecture Requirements (2002-06-26)
- Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios (2002-07-16)
- Web Services Glossary (2002-06-05)
- Web Services Architecture (2002-06-06)
Task forces proposals
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.
- Management task force
- MTF output
- Draft of Management Concern Section (2002-11-11)
- Draft of proposals for details for the requester, provider and discovery agencies roles (2002-11-11)
- Draft of proposal for lifecycle and state for Web services (2002-11-11)
- Web Services Endpoint Management Architecture Requirements Draft (2003-02-28)
- Security task force
- Proposal for a security section (2003-04-24)
Discussion lists
Technical discussions of the Web Services Architecture take place on the public www-ws-arch@w3.org mailing list:
- Browse the www-ws-arch archive.
- Search the archive:
In order to subscribe to the www-ws-arch mailing list, please check the subscription procedure.
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.
Task force mailing lists (closed)
Meeting records
Meetings in 2004:
- 2004-01-26 to 2004-01-29: Face-to-face meeting: 2004-01-26 minutes, 2004-01-27 minutes, 2004-01-28 minutes, 2004-01-29 minutes
- 2004-01-22: Teleconference
- 2004-01-15: Teleconference
- 2004-01-08: Teleconference
Meetings in 2003:
- 2003-12-18: Teleconference
- 2003-12-11: Teleconference
- 2003-12-04: Teleconference
- 2003-11-20: Teleconference
- 2003-11-13: Teleconference
- 2003-11-05 to 2003-11-07: Face-to-face meeting: 2003-11-05 minutes, 2003-11-06 minutes, 2003-11-07 minutes
- 2003-10-30: Teleconference
- 2003-10-23: Teleconference
- 2003-10-16: Teleconference
- 2003-10-09: Teleconference
- 2003-10-02: Teleconference
- 2003-09-24 to 2003-09-26: Face-to-face meeting: 2003-09-24 minutes, 2003-09-25 minutes, 2003-09-26 minutes
- 2003-09-18: Teleconference
- 2003-09-11: Teleconference
- 2003-09-04: Teleconference
- 2003-08-21: Teleconference
- 2003-08-07: Teleconference (minutes lost in a laptop crash)
- 2003-07-28 to 2003-07-30: Face-to-face meeting: 2003-07-28 minutes, 2003-07-29 minutes, 2003-07-30 minutes
- 2003-07-24: Teleconference
- 2003-07-17: Teleconference
- 2003-07-10: Teleconference
- 2003-07-03: Teleconference
- 2003-06-26: Teleconference
- 2003-06-19: Teleconference
- 2003-06-12: Teleconference
- 2003-06-05: Teleconference
- 2003-05-29: Teleconference
- 2003-05-22: Teleconference
- 2003-05-14 to 2003-05-16: Face-to-face meeting: 2003-05-14 minutes, 2003-05-15 minutes, 2003-05-16 minutes
- 2003-05-08: Teleconference
- 2003-05-01: Teleconference
- 2003-04-24: Teleconference
- 2003-04-17: Teleconference
- 2003-04-10: Teleconference
- 2003-04-03: Teleconference
- 2003-03-27: Teleconference
- 2003-03-20: Teleconference
- 2003-03-16: Teleconference
- 2003-03-06 to 2003-03-07: Face-to-face meeting: 2003-03-06 minutes, 2003-03-07 minutes
- 2003-02-27: Teleconference
- 2003-02-20: Teleconference
- 2003-02-13: Teleconference
- 2003-02-06: Teleconference
- 2003-01-30: Teleconference
- 2003-01-22 to 2003-01-24: Face-to-face meeting: Wednesday 22 January minutes, Thursday 23 January minutes, Friday 24 January minutes
- 2003-01-16: Teleconference
- 2003-01-09: Teleconference
Meetings in 2002:
- 19 December 2002: Teleconference
- 12 December 2002: Teleconference
- 5 December 2002: Teleconference
- 21 November 2002: Teleconference
- 13-15 November 2002: Face-to-face meeting: 13 November minutes, 14 November minutes, 15 November minutes
- 7 November 2002: Teleconference
- 31 October 2002: Teleconference
- 24 October 2002: Teleconference
- 17 October 2002: Teleconference
- 10 October 2002: Teleconference
- 3 October 2002: Teleconference
- 26 September 2002: Teleconference
- 19 September 2002: Teleconference
- 11-13 September 2002: Face-to-face meeting
- 5 September 2002: Teleconference
- 29 August 2002: Informal teleconference
- 22 August 2002: Informal teleconference
- 15 August 2002: Informal teleconference
- 8 August 2002: Informal teleconference
- 1 August 2002: Informal teleconference
- 25 July 2002: Teleconference
- 18 July 2002: Teleconference
- 11 July 2002: Teleconference
- 27 June 2002: Teleconference
- 27 June 2002: Teleconference
- 20 June 2002: Teleconference
- 12-14 June 2002: Face-to-face meeting
- 6 June 2002: Teleconference
- 30 May 2002: Teleconference
- 23 May 2002: Teleconference
- 16 May 2002: Teleconference
- 9 May 2002: Teleconference
- 2 May 2002: Teleconference
- 25 April 2002: Teleconference
- 18 April 2002: Teleconference
- 8-10 April 2002: Face-to-face meeting
- 4 April 2002: Teleconference
- 28 March 2002: Teleconference
- 21 March 2002: Teleconference
- 14 March 2002: Teleconference
- 7 March 2002: Teleconference
- 28 February 2002: Teleconference
- 21 February 2002: Teleconference
- 14 February 2002: Teleconference
- 6 February 2002: Teleconference
Working Group Participants
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.
Patent disclosures
Please refer to the Web Services Architecture Working Group patent disclosures document.
Related Resources
The following is suggested background reading:
- Architecture of the World Wide Web
- Web Architecture from 50,000 feet
- From Roy Fielding's dissertation: Designing the Web Architecture: Problems and Insights and Representational State Transfer (REST)
See also the documents produced by the TAG and their homework section.
Mike Champion <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com> and Dave Hollander <dmh@contivo.com>, Chairs
Hugo Haas <hugo@w3.org> and David Booth <dbooth@w3.org>, W3C Team Contacts
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