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Posted to soap-user@ws.apache.org by Mike Williams <mi...@mikesbox.com> on 2002/08/10 06:10:21 UTC

Re: ANN: BPEL4WS, WS-Transaction and WS-Coordination specificationspublished

On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 23:08, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
> "Mike Williams" <mi...@mikesbox.com> writes:
> > 
> > Thank you for the information.  I do have a concern however.  Are these
> > specifications open?  In other words will they be submitted to a
> > standards body such as the W3C, or are they proprietary to BEA, IBM,
> > and/or Microsoft?
> 
> The intent is absolutely to submit it to a standards body. I
> currently don't know who/when/where however. 
> 
> > I guess my main concern is will be possible for a 3 party to provide an
> > implementation of the specifications?
> 
> That's absolutely the intent - to have open, free standard
> languages and compete on the implementations.
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Sanjiva.
> 
> 
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Thanks for the clarification.  I assumed as much but, I guess I'm just a
little paranoid :)

Thanks!
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