The WSDL WG continues to struggle to get it’s Candidate Recommendation issue list down to zero - something we’ve been close to for a long time (and even acheived momentarily a few times) but never quite able to make stick.

Rolling up the graph of our issues, it’s pretty clear what the culprit is - there have been two major spikes in the number of issues - one last June, and another last November.  Not terribly surprisingly, these spikes coincide fairly directly with the two interop events we’ve held (July 5-7, Nov 14-18).  Clearly dedicated interop events do result in closer examination and improvements to a spec!

So, is the solution to speedy specs simply not holding interop events?  Instead, I’d propose a new model - instead of specially arranging interop events as necessary, plan from the beginning to hold a recurring series of interop events, every two to three months, stopping only when the spec is complete.  Which I think means we’re due for another one…