Standardizing Web Services: Overcoming 'Design by Committee'

Web service standards, like several other IT standards, are anticipatory, i.e., they are designed and codified in anticipation of actual adoption and use. As a result, the setting of web service standards takes on properties that resemble the designing of software artifacts. In contrast, the traditional perspective on standards views them as law-like systems that legislate modes of behavior, product structures or specifications. The two perspectives

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: SERVICES
• Authors: Sandeep Purao, John W. Bagby, Karthikeyan Umapathy
• Keywords: SERVICES 2008, Standards Views, Web Service Standards, Web Services Standards