- From: Francis McCabe <fgm@fla.fujitsu.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:09:49 -0800
- To: public-sws-ig@w3.org
Hi, I am Frank McCabe. Or should that be: (inform :sender FrankMcCabe :recipient (all X (on-list X public-sws-ig@w3.org)) :content-language madeupLogic :content (eq (iota X (name-of sender X)) FrankMcCabe) ) ;-) I am one of the editors of the W3C Web Services Architecture. A driving force for my interest in the WSA and in SWS is achieving genuine interoperability across ownership boundaries in my life-time. I think that the WSA has helped significantly towards that goal, but more is needed: specifically a deeper understanding of what is meant by interoperability, a deeper commitment to meta-data, and some way of slicing the Gordian Knot of inter-application complexity and fitness-of-purpose. As a kind of kick-off: you may recall that the Internet is founded on two axioms: 1. You know the thing that you need 2. You know who knows the thing that you need. I suggest the following third axiom: 3. You don't need to understand everything at once. The first two suggest a pointer-following paradigm that is at the heart of the Web. The third suggests a layered approach to interoperability that seems quite powerful (IMO). Frank McCabe
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