Following on the heels of the submissions from Microsoft, IBM, et. al. of WS-Transfer, WS-Eventing, and WS-Enumeration, the W3C has acknowledged the submission of the WSDL 1.1 Binding Extension for SOAP 1.2 and the SOAP 1.1 Binding for MTOM 1.0, which I co-authored and published last month.  Are there more submissions in the works?  Stay tuned!

The submission process accomplishes several goals:

• Signals the author’s intention that the specs are finished and stable.
• Puts the specs under the W3C document license, to aid adoption and reuse of the specifications.
• A tiny bit of the W3C brand equity rubs off on the specs since they now have www.w3.org urls.
• Simplifies the politics of reusing of these specs in profiles.

For me, it’s final confirmation that this project is complete.  Satisfying!