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[FYI] Microsoft withdrew from the W3C's so-called "choreography group"



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Microsoft leaves standards group 

Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com  

In a sign of growing discord over Web services guidelines, Microsoft 
has pulled out of a key Web services standards working group.  

Over the past month, IBM and Microsoft have been at odds with other 
companies around standards submissions, including a high-profile 
effort within the Web's leading standards organisation, the World 
Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Now Microsoft has upped the rancor by 
dropping out of a W3C working group focused on establishing rules for 
how businesses will send and receive data to one another via Web 
services.  

The company withdrew from the W3C's so-called choreography group 
because it determined that the scope of the group did not align well 
with the work of two Microsoft researchers who attended the initial 
meeting, said Steven VanRoekel, director of Web services marketing 
for Microsoft.  

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