Videos tagged with Standardization

Summary 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. Bio Paul is a member...

Summary Patrick Curran and Geir Magnusson discuss the role played by the standardization process and the lessons taken from the open source movement, one key aspect being related to reference implementations that are required from spec leaders. Bio Patrick Curran is Chair of the JCP. In this role he oversees the activities of the JCP Program Office including driving the process, leading the Exe...

Summary Until recently, HTTP was used for browsers to GET and POST HTML and a handful of other formats to and from Web servers, and it worked well. Recently, however, people have been finding more and more to do with it -- and not just because it can get through the firewall. This talk will take a hard look at where HTTP is today, and what implementations are doing well (and not so well). We'll...

Standards, of many different kinds, are important to Google. The standards of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) are important to the Internet, and therefore important to Google. This talk will: present the Google standards intergrouplet, which does coordination of standards activities at Google give an introduction to the IETF and how the IETF works talk about the Email Address Interna...

Summary IBM Chief SOA architect Rob High introduces Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO) as the foundation for a SOA programming model. Topics covered include a definition of SOA, a look at its principles and properties, an introduction to SCA and SDO and an outlook to the connection of SOA and Web 2.0. Bio Rob High is the Chief Architect for IBM's SOA Foundation ...

Summary In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Stefan Tilkov talks to Paul Downey, Chief Web Services Architect for BT, about Web services standards, Paul's work in the XML Databinding working group, WS-* vs. REST, and cool stuff BT offers to developers. Bio Paul acts as Chief Web Services Architect for BT, defined the exposure of the BT Web21C services, chairs the W3C XML Schema Patterns ...