Baseline

Baseline information that has been standardized for the delta-federation work and the policy calculus work:

Collected a lot of WS --- things. Standards? Policies? Languages?

Only found a few security related specifications. But I didn't look that hard yet.

I certainly need to find some way to organize this information and to bring out the useful parts. So for each baseline-candidate I want to know (a) what it specifies (b) how its specified (c) limitations?

What it specifies (and who claims to do it)

• external visible behavior (WSCL) [phrasing attributed here]
  
• observable behavior (WSCI?)
• message exchange (WSCI)
• message flow
• capabilities (DAML-S)
• conversations - DTDs, Interactions, Transitions (WSCL)
• document type definitions (W3C?)
• accessibility guidelines (WCAG)
• digital message format for alerts and notifications (CAP)
• soap message security (WS-Security)
  

How it is specified (and who again)

• Ontology (DAML-S)
• XML-based language (WSCI)
• XML syntax (WSCL, WS-Security)

How it is used

• stored/registered in UDDI tModel entries (WSCL)
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Current status of standards

• Member submission (OWL-S)
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Other misc notes:

• DAML-S is now OWL-S