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               <h1 class="title">Web Services Architecture Current Status</h1>
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      <p id="w3c_toggle_include" class="default_open intro tPadding">This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
     For related introductory information, see: <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/webarch/principles">Architecture Principles</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/webofservices/protocols">Protocols</a>.</p>
      <h2 id="completed">Completed Work</h2>
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         <a href="/TR/tr-technology-stds">W3C Recommendations</a> have
	been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
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	Track</a>.</p>
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         <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#q75">Group Notes</a> are <em>not</em> standards and do not
	have the same level of W3C endorsement.</p>
      <h3 id="notes">Group Notes</h3>
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                  <td class="table_datecol">
                     <a href="../history/ws-i18n-req" title="Requirements for the Internationalization of Web Services publication history">2004-11-16</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-i18n-req-20041116/">Requirements for the Internationalization of Web Services</a>
                     </h4>
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                        <p>Developed to help achieve worldwide
                        usability for Web services, these
                        requirements address the way
                        internationalization options are exposed in
                        Web services definitions, descriptions,
                        messages, and discovery mechanisms.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/ws-i18n-scenarios" title="Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios publication history">2004-07-30</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-i18n-scenarios-20040730/">Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>Describes internationalization usage
                        patterns and scenarios for Web services.
                        Provides additional guidance for
                        implementers of Web service technologies,
                        suggesting methods for dealing with general
                        international interoperability issues in
                        services and service descriptions. Provides
                        a template for Web service designers to
                        implement international capabilities in
                        their services.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/wslc" title="Web Service Management: Service Life Cycle publication history">2004-02-11</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-wslc-20040211/">Web Service Management: Service Life Cycle</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document describes the life cycle of a Web service, and of the
processing of a request by a Web service.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/ws-arch" title="Web Services Architecture publication history">2004-02-11</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-arch-20040211/">Web Services Architecture</a>
                     </h4>
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                        <p>This document defines the Web Services Architecture. It identifies the
        functional components and defines the relationships among those components to effect the desired properties of the overall architecture.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/wsa-reqs" title="Web Services Architecture Requirements publication history">2004-02-11</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-wsa-reqs-20040211">Web Services Architecture Requirements</a>
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                        <p>This document describes a set of requirements for a standard
reference architecture for Web services developed by the Web
Services Architecture Working Group. These requirements are
intended to guide the development of the reference architecture and
provide a set of measurable constraints on Web services
implementations by which conformance can be determined.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/ws-arch-scenarios" title="Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios publication history">2004-02-11</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-arch-scenarios-20040211/">Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document describes the Web Service Architecture use cases and Usage
      Scenarios.</p>
                        <p>It is a collection of use cases and usage scenarios which
      illustrate the use of Web services. They are
      used to generate requirements for the Web services architecture,
      as well as to evaluate existing technologies.</p>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/ws-gloss" title="Web Services Glossary publication history">2004-02-11</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-gloss-20040211/">Web Services Glossary</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document is a glossary of Web services
			terms defined and used in the Web Services Architecture
	[WS Arch]. It is intended for use by
	Web services spefications in order to refer to a common
	coherent framework.</p>
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      <h2 id="drafts">Drafts</h2>
      <p>Below are draft documents:
      <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#RecsWD">other Working Drafts</a>.
      Some of these may become Web Standards through the <a href="/Consortium/Process/tr#rec-advance">W3C Recommendation Track
      process</a>. Others may be published as Group Notes or
      become obsolete specifications.</p>
      <h3 id="wd">Other Working Drafts</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/ws-i18n" title="Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N) publication history">2008-04-15</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-ws-i18n-20080415/">Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N)</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>Describes enhancements to SOAP messaging
                        to provide internationalized and localized
                        operations using locale and international
                        preferences. These mechanisms can be used
                        to accommodate a wide variety of
                        development models for international
                        usage.</p>
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