1. Enabling Shared Context Anne Thomas Manes Director Market Innovation atm@sun.com W3C Web Services Workshop

2. User Expectations Simplicity, Access from Any* Network Services -Read email -Get directions -Order groceries -Schedule a meeting Web Services -Read email -Get directions -Order groceries -Schedule a meeting * Anyone, Anywhere, Any time, Any device

3. The Service-Driven Network

4. Web Services Service Discovery

5. Web Services Standards de Jour

6. Future Expectations: Spontaneous Service Interaction

7. Smart Web Services  Spontaneous federation of services  Dynamic personalization and customisation  Dynamic aggregation of services  Based on context:  Who, what, when, where, why

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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