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World Standards Day -- October 14

Posted Friday, October 15, 2004 1:21 PM by Dave Welsh
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 Read More...
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Financial Services & SWIFT, ISO, Web Services, Domain Specific Languages and Software Factories

Posted Friday, October 15, 2004 12:46 PM by Dave Welsh
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. Read More...
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Catching up on blogging and Web Service Standards

Posted Saturday, October 09, 2004 1:23 PM by Dave Welsh
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 Read More...
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The fading myth of Open Systems, time to think about Interoperability

Posted Thursday, September 16, 2004 5:36 PM by Dave Welsh
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 Read More...
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How Standards Orgs work with each other, and ‘referencing’ others standards

Posted Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:43 PM by Dave Welsh
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 Read More...
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How Standards Orgs (should) work with each other - Part 1 of 4

Posted Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:42 PM by Dave Welsh
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 Read More...
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How Standards Orgs (should) work with each other - Part 2 of 4

Posted Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:40 PM by Dave Welsh
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 Read More...
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How Standards Orgs (should) work with each other - Part 3 of 4

Posted Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:35 PM by Dave Welsh
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 Read More...
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How Standards Orgs (should) work with each other - Part 4 of 4

Posted Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:30 PM by Dave Welsh
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 Read More...
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Update on WS-Eventing

Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:55 AM by Dave Welsh
What's cool for Industry Standards groups (retail, finance, manufacturing, apparel, utility services, ...), who typically work in their own process domains and with their own communities, is that they are all going to be on a common technical foundation Read More...
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Distinguishing between Open Standards and Open Source -- Part I of III

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2004 7:55 PM by Dave Welsh
The blurring of distinctions between Open Source Software and Open Standards – be it inadvertent or intentional – is confusing a lot of people and can be deceptive. The difference is something architects and decision makers need to be sensitive about Read More...
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Distinguishing between Open Standards and Open Source -- Part II of III

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2004 7:53 PM by Dave Welsh
The term “Open Source Software” ( OSS ) is used in a variety of contexts to refer to any (or a combination) of four (4) interrelated concepts: an OSS development model, OSS philosophies, OSS licensing regimes, and OSS business models. The four concepts Read More...
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Distinguishing between Open Standards and Open Source -- Part III of III

Posted Saturday, August 28, 2004 7:52 PM by Dave Welsh
Distinguishing between Open Standards and Open Source Software is essential, as they each are tailored towards different ends. The fundamental purpose of a standard is to promote interoperability. The philosophical objective of OSS is to ensure that software Read More...
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Another Web Service spec comes together (MTOM)

Posted Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:18 PM by Dave Welsh
More new Web Service work is making its way through the standards process, and this time it’s MTOM at W3C. MTOM (Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism) is a spec for attaching large binary data to a SOAP message, while still retaining the SOAP processing Read More...
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A Quicker Way to get Better Standards?

Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:16 PM by Dave Welsh
Customers always tell us they want open standards that work, yesterday. With last weeks news about WS-Addressing going in to the W3C, most of the public might not realize they are actually watching the end of an exhaustive standards development process Read More...
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