"A comparative analysis of WS-C/WS-Tx and OASIS BTP"2003 article by Mark Little and Thomas Freund.

Steve Lougrham adds another data point against WS-* specs. Following the WS-A multi version fiasco, he says that WSRF 1.0 (final) is dependent on two distinct drafts of WS-Addr...

What's better than one standard increasing complexity in the name of "protocol independence"? Five standars increasing complexity in the name of "protocol independence" (5 incompatible versions actually).

Standards whithout a normative test suite (or a perfect formal model) lead to interop problems and "plugfests" do little to mitigate the problem, specially when they are vendor-limited.