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
Sandeep Purao, John W. Bagby, Karthikeyan Umapathy