Public draft of the WS-Basic Profile. A key milestone.

I chair this working group, and am extremely proud of the hard work this group has shown.

An article on WS-Inspection. I co-authored the WS-Inspection spec.

"I find WSIL intriguing because of its simplicity and lightweight implementation. It's what the Web services space needs now. I would go so far as to argue that WSIL should have preceded UDDI as the solution we all need for services discovery, and is a logical stepping stone towards extensive Web services repository services for those who eventually require them."

Scoble says, and several others agree with him: "The port workers are gonna put thousands of people out of work. All because they don't wanna give up their entitlements. I hate entitlements. They already have jobs guaranteed for life. I wish I had such a guarantee. And people wonder why unions aren't appreciated in American life? Fuck them."

Ouch! I disagree entirely. Here are the real facts:
1) The port workers aren't on strike. Management has locked them out from working. (Complaining of a mysterious and unproved "work slowdown".)
2) They don't want entitlements. Most unions aren't about entitlements. They are about jobs with living wages in safe conditions.
3) Unions don't guarantee a job for life.

There's a great book out called "One market under god". It does a fabulous job of showing how the anyone in the US who doesn't believe in absolutely deregulated markets is branded as a commie-loving, gimme-my-entitlements bastard.