Transcript W3C Web Services Workshop Enabling Shared Context Anne Thomas Manes Director Market Innovation [email protected].

W3C Web Services Workshop
Enabling Shared Context
Anne Thomas Manes
Director Market Innovation
[email protected]
User Expectations
Simplicity, Access from Any*
Network
Web
Services
Services
- Read email
- Get directions
- Order groceries
- Schedule a meeting
* Anyone, Anywhere, Any time, Any device
The Service-Driven
Network
Web Services
Service Discovery
Web Services
Standards de Jour
Future Expectations:
Spontaneous Service Interaction
Smart Web Services
 Spontaneous
federation of
services
 Dynamic
personalization and
customisation
 Dynamic
 Based

aggregation of services
on context:
Who, what, when, where, why
Smart Web Services
Context-Sensitive Services
 Dynamic

results based on
Identity, security, privacy, role, location,
device, history, service level
agreements...
 Examples

Restaurant finder

Energy conservation policy

Shipment policy
Hurdles
Interoperability is Key
 No

standard way to represent
Identity, roles, preferences, history, etc.
 No
standard way to share or
propagate this context across
services
 No standard way to define and
enforce privacy policies for this
information
What We Need
 Context
framework:

XML vocabulary for identity

XML vocabulary for context

Framework to access and share info
 Privacy

framework:
Mechanism to set policies and enforce
privacy on personal/private info