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Standards are Great, but Standardisation is a Really Bad Idea

Topics
WS Standards,
Collaboration,
Architecture,
Communication

Paul Downey discusses the risks of premature standardisation, unnatural constraints, partial implementations and open extensions, how to avoid cloud computing lock-in, formal activities versus lightweight open processes as exemplified by open source, Microformats, OpenID, OAuth and other Web conventions being ratified through open, lightweight, continuous agreement.

Is the Web "Good Enough" for Web Services?

Topics
WS Standards,
Web Services,
REST,
SOA

In this presentation, recorded at QCon London, Paul Downey, who is Chief Web Services Architect for BT and a participant in many standards groups, talks about the Web and why he believes its architecture is superior to that of SOAP/WSDL-based Web services.