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