A slew of technology heavyweights, including IBM, Microsoft, BEA Systems and TIBCO Software, today submitted the latest version of their co-authored Web Services ReliableMessaging (WS-RM) specification to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).
The companies asked that the specification be submitted to a technical committee for further refinement and finalization as a Web services standard. They would not charge royalties for use of the XML-based specification.
But there's a significant roadblock: OASIS has for two years been working on a competing technology with comparable functionality. Called WS-Reliability, this specification was approved as an OASIS standard last year. If OASIS accepts WS-RM and forms a technical committee to work on it, efforts would have to be made to reconcile the two efforts.
