- From: Champion, Mike <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:55:33 -0500
- To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Burdett, David [mailto:david.burdett@commerceone.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:02 PM > To: Dave Hollander (E-mail); Mike Champion (E-mail) > Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org; 'Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)'; Mark Baker > > A question for our leaders ... > > To what extent is the requirement to develop a Web Services > Architecture that supports the needs of business/ecommerce a > formal objective of this activity? The answer is "yes, of course." Oddly enough, the Requirements don't say this as explicitly as I remembered, maybe because we "just knew" that the objective is to support the needs of business. What the Requirements doc does say is: "Of course, it is also important to recognize that an important motivation for the product of this Working Group is to support the needs of enterprises that use Web services for the purpose of engaging in e-business." This is clearly not just an academic exercise; an intellectually pure architecture that doesn't actually have real-world implementations or reflect practical business knowledge would not meet the requirements of this activity. Of course, one would be forgiven for not getting that impression from this mailing list :-) But that's the price we pay (and benefit we get) from doing the technical work in public.
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