Ironically, the W3C Web Services Activity appears most productive when it’s on holiday ;-).  An impressive list of deliverables from the Web Services Description and Web Services Addressing Working Groups has appeared this month, while the Working Groups take their August break.  Maybe we should take holidays more often!  Or were we just so motivated to start our vacations that we actually came to agreement over the hard issues represented in these publications?

• 17 August 2005: Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Core - Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 1 November 2005
• 17 August 2005: Web Services Addressing 1.0 - SOAP Binding - Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 1 November 2005
• 3 August 2005: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 1: Core Language - Last Call Ends 19 September 2005
• 3 August 2005: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 2: Adjuncts - Last Call Ends 19 September 2005
• 3 August 2005: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 0: Primer - Last Call Ends 19 September 2005
• 3 August 2005: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 SOAP 1.1 Binding - Last Call Ends 19 September 2005
• 17 August 2005: Discussion of Alternative Schema Languages and Type System Support in WSDL 2.0

In any case, congratulations to all my fellow WS-Desc and WS-Addr members on a productive summer!  This marks a significant jump in the level of stability of each of these documents, and shows that there may indeed be a light at the end of these tunnels.