A little late getting photos posted, but the week before last I spent in the South of France at the 2006 W3C Technical Plenary. Mostly I was stuck in the hotel in meetings or feverishly working online, rewarded in the end by successfully completing several milestones:

• WS-Addressing Candidate Recommendation completion.  The final issues were closed and dealt with and the interop work approached (but didn’t quite reach) completion.
• The WSDL Working Group held it’s (probably) last full face to face meeting, as it enters it’s fifth year.  It now goes into a bit of slow motion waiting for implementations to catch up.
• Put the finishing touches on the two "binding" specifications I co-authored with IBM, Oracle, and SAP.
• Delivered a hopefully amusing lightning talk at the Tech Plenary, with Paul Downey, on the Chad voting bot and how Single Transferrable Voting can make getting to consensus, well, just a lot more fun.

In between I had some excellent company, excellent food, including a 9-course truffle menu at La Bastide Saint Antoine, and even toward the end of the week a couple of refreshing outings to find geocaches.

Photos are available in the Cannes set.  Check it out!