Desiderata for Open Source Services
Democratic
Any open service can be consumed by anyone
Just-in-Time
at anytime as declared in service description.
Honesty
Service descriptions fully describe commitments of the service and the
consumer.
Open
No proprietary standards for communications or ontologies.
Easy
Making a web service is no harder than making a MySpace page.
Capture the vertical markets and the Long Tail.
© 2007 Charles Petrie - permission to reproduce widely with attribution