Can't believe the last time I blogged was TechED Orlando, in June. It's September and the summer flashed by ... Well, we finally published some very new Archietctural Guidance material on the topic of managing services, in the general sense of 'services...

I think we're getting over the hump here at TechED and people are starting to see the end of the week, tomorrow, but still there's a majority of die hard attendee's showing up before 8:30 in the morning for the first sessions; maybe they were just early...

Just came from Don Box's session on "Meta Data Soup: Contracts, Models and Types". Without fail, this was one of Don's classic presentations; few slides with ever fewer words on the slides punctutated with a little colorful illustration as Don makes his...

Everyone is settling down to the routine here in Orlando. I will probably do some Architecture Cabana duty before Friday, and my next event I must go to is a rehearsal Thursday night then first thing Friday morning I speak. So between now and Friday I...

Skipped the Archtecture Strategy party last night, plus the Regional Directors 2 parties, and probably a few more parties but made it to the manditory Microsoft pre conference briefing last night; which is my excuse for not going to any of the many parties...

It's Sunday today and TechED starts tomorrow. I got into Orlando yesterday morning then took the shuttle ride from hell to the hotel. Our driver ran on 230 v while we cruse 120. A nice enough guy, just he like to 'command' his passengers and he probably...

I first saw the pre announcement final briefing last weekend, and in the past few months I've been in some meetings including some with Jean Paoli where the topic was an open format for Office. The following ZDnet article http://news.com.com/IT+giants...

Back again in the blog space, and looking forward to blogging again after so many months of being off line. Actually, because of day job work I wanted to put the blog aside to concentrate on a few other things. Anyway, back here again. So, catching...

Did anyone notice? Details are here http://www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/wsd/2004wsdindex.html and this year's theme was "Standards Connect the World" - which seems to line up with the thinking that we do live in a 'connected world'. Past annual themes...

I just got back from the annual SWIFT conference, this year in Atlanta. Some 5,500 delegates from around the world showed up to the conference and vendor exhibition; and of course SWIFT had the event perfectly organized as only SWIFT knows how to do....

This morning during the Microsoft Architects Forum, I followed a presentation given by Simon Guest on Interop & Integration, where Simon talked about the difference between Web Service stacks between Microsoft products and our competing vendor products;...

We're having a week long meeting for the Microsoft Architects from around the world, this week, and the first sessions started today; Sunday. I'll be speaking on Monday, then off to the SWIFT annual SIBOS conference to talk about convergence of Industry...

It's been a few weeks since I've blogged. I've just been too busy, heads down with day job work which I can't talk about just yet, but I thought I'd just get back into the blogging rhythm here a few of the things from the past few weeks; to catch up on...

There's a new Web Services Architecture paper just up on on MSDN and its a good introduction to some of the higher level architectural concepts behind the many Web Service specifications which are becoming open standards right now. The nice thing about...

A message via via from onStrategies just passed my way and it had to do with a new piece that should be out on Friday Sept 17th called " The Myth of Open Systems ". Before going any further this is not trying to slam Open Source. The author Tony Baer...

I planned to physically attend the annual company meeting, especially as it was at the McCaw Opera Hall and there were limited tickets (I had a ticket) but my schedule is running over so I decided to go virtual and multi-task with attending the Company...

From the September Skiing magazine edition: 10. The Selkirk mountains get more than 40 feet of snow per year. 9. Resort names like Fernie and Louise remind you of your great aunt from Deleware. 8. Canadian congressional reports say pot poses no threat...

I've been looking around at some of the available books on blogging. I bought an O'Reilly book which really didn't tell me much about blogging. Right now I'm reading " We the Media - grassroots journalism by the poeple for the people " by Dan Gillmor...

We all seem to remember where we were on September 11, 2001 . Myself - I was called out of a UN/CEFACT meeting at a World Trade Center , the one in Rotterdam . Too far away from home. I remember that evening in Rotterdam , when a few of us from the US...

Roger Sessions, famous from the ObjectWatch Newsletter , which I believe has a readership of over 12,000 readers, is coming out with a new newsletter called the Architect Technology Advisory (ATA) in the next month or 2. The ATA will cover a variety of...

A few people have been asking about why don’t the different standards groups work more closely with each other. The joke goes “the good thing about standards it there are so many to choose from”. Seriously, it becomes increasingly harder for customers...

I. INTRODUCTION Standards development organizations (“SDOs”, including consortia) increasingly collaborate with one another, both domestically and internationally, with respect to the development of technical specifications/standards. These collaborative...

1. Key Issues for SDOs to Consider When Developing Formal Liaison Agreements SDOs that have formalized their intent to collaborate on the development of a joint standard typically have (or should) address, in writing, the following key areas governing...

I. CONSIDERATIONS WHEN ONE SDO SUBMITS ITS DRAFT OR FINAL WORK TO ANOTHER SDO FOR COMPLETION AND/OR APPROVAL Many times two SDOs may not work together on the joint development of a standard (as discussed in the previous section). Rather, one SDO may develop...

I. KEY RISKS AND ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH ONE SDO NORMATIVELY REFERENCING THE STANDARD OF ANOTHER SDO As described above, there are several ways that SDOs may choose to work together toward a mutual standards-setting goal, including informal and formal...