Minutes of SWSA Telecon of February 3, 2004
(sorry that minutes are sparse here)

Mike Dean, Michal Zaremba, Mike Huhns, Stuart Williams, Mark Burstein

Follow-on discussion on the impact of WSA products (and the committee demise) on our efforts.

MB: Question how we scope our work to be effective - if we focus on
protocols, perhaps we should push more on the "Community Support"
functionalities that are the main entities for which these are widely
shared. What existence proofs can we point to?  There is also a question of
"what semantic web" we should assume we live on top of. Other than RDF/OWL
- what models do we have of how semantics will be shared?  Community
support middleware covers both of these issues in the sense that it
includes both group membership/identity/authorization management, and
potentially also semantics repository management.  What is going to play
the role of Google on the semantic web?

Tim: We should be concrete about identifying and modeling protocols, find
existing implementations, maybe have someone do a masters project.

MB: Chris, what was Oracle's attitude toward the semantic web? Microsoft?

CB: Oracle was largely indifferent - wait and see - was not influencing
their plans (yet).  Msft not saying.  Biztalk group may be doing something
- (Friction inside on whether Pi Calculus will be the basis of enterprise
integration representations?)

Mike Dean: New site called SemWebCentral - based on GForge  - open source version of OpenSource
GForge has a WSDL service interface - Several DARPA projects using that for their websites.

Upcoming Issue: Plans for F2F