I have a long breakfast with Patrick Gannon, CEO of OASIS regarding the progress made by the FWSI TC or Framework for Web Services Implementation¹ Technical Committee.

Both of us are have high hopes for TC. You see, if WS is to be the become the infrastructure-platform where machine-to-machine communicates to each another, then what it also need are common APIs or building blocks where programmers can utilizes without replicating for each application. A simple anlogy is if WS is the network-OS, then FWSI is the libc/POSIX.Unfortunately, there are many confusions about FWSI, particularly with Web Services Interoperability. They are different (in the end-goal) although they may have similar acromyns and similar approach in looking for a solution.

¹ FWSI is co-chair by one of my staff, Roberto Pascual. It was launch last year.