Additional references and commentary in the CP news story:

http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-08-10-a.html
"WS-Addressing Specification Presented to W3C as a Member Submission"

I don't know about oceans and tides, but from my personal contacts,
most everyone has a good feeling about this.  More than a dozen WS-*
specs are critically dependent upon WS-A [1], and others (not in the WS-*
stack) need the functionality.  It makes eminent sense IMO for all the players,
including the owners of the WS-MessageDelivery specification [2], viz.,
Oracle, Arjuna, Cyclone Commerce, Enigmatec, IONA, Nokia, SeeBeyond,
and Sun Microsystems to work toward a common technical solution that
will plug in everywhere.

</opinion>

- Robin Cover

[1] http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-08-10-a.html#dependentSpecs
[2] http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-04-26-a.html

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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Chiusano Joseph wrote:

> For those interested in the Web Services specifications/standards
> landscape:
> 
> It was just announced that the WS-Addressing specification has been
> submitted to W3C[1].
> 
> Also, somewhat surprisingly given the "vendor dynamics" on such
> specifications: The authors include not only Microsoft, IBM, BEA, and
> SAP, but...Sun Microsystems. 
> 
> Is the tide turning?
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/Submission/ws-addressing/
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Joe Chiusano
> Booz Allen Hamilton
> Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World
> 
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