I know you’re probably tired of me touting each step of progress in WS-Addressing’s end game, but we toil through design by committee for months and sometimes years to reach the point where we can see the visible results. Toward the end the milestones accelerate infrequency and importance.  We need to shout a bit when we get there for our own self-worth.

So… today WS-Addressing was published as a Proposed Recommendation.  This means that the Working Group is done (as represented by Last Call), the larger community is done (as represented by Candidate Recommendation), and now implementers have done their due diligence (as represented by Proposed Recommendation).  The Proposed Recommendation is placed before the W3C membership in the form of the Advisory Committee, who may provide advice and comments to the Director who will determine whether there is any doubt about the quality, utility, harmlessness, and general benefit of the specifications.   If not, they will be issued as a W3C Recommendation.

I expect my final tout will appear in about 6 weeks so you’re safe from Addressing milestone reports till then :-).

[Photo shows a prayer shingle offered by our former chair MNot's prayer during the WS-Addressing FTF meeting in Yokohama last November.  I think we're well on track to beat that date!]