| Monday, November 5 |
So many ideas and so many technologies are swirling around P2P --
decentralization, distributed computing, web services, JXTA, UDDI,
SOAP -- that its sometimes hard to see order in the chaos. If we look
past the labels and the individual applications, though, we can see
one thing clearly: The twin revolutions of the PC and the internet
collided in 1994, and for half a dozen years after, browser+server was
the indispensible internet architecture.
Today, we are witnessing a Great Re-wiring, a chance to reconsider how
the world's devices connect to the internet and to one another outside
the browser+server framework, and no matter what label we choose for
it, this re-wiring is transforming the network and how we use it.
Mark Lucovsky, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft and the architect of the .NET My Services, discusses several Microsoft initiatives for building distributed services. Lucovsky outlines the .NET My Services programming model and how it is used for both peer-to-peer and distributed applications, as well as some related developments in peer-to-peer infrastructure.
| Tuesday, November 6 |
Given that the web is all about massive connectedness, what are the driving principles behind the evolution of the web and what do they tell us about the harmonisation of web services, peer-to-peer computing and wireless connectivity? Simon Phipps explores the principles behind the evolution of the web, position initiatives such as UDDI, SunONE and JXTA in the evolutionary scale, and peers into the future of services on the internet.
What the web did for business-to-consumer interactions, web services are poised to do for business-to-business interactions. Built on top of new and emerging technologies such as HTTP, XML, SOAP, and UDDI, web services are the next horizon for e-business. The key to reaching this horizon is a common program-to-program communication model that changes the rules of integration both within and across new and existing enterprise systems.
This presentation will cover web services: what they are, why and how they are changing program-to-program communication, and how they are transforming businesses. It will explain the key web services standards, their adoption in the industry, and some of the key emerging directions. Finally it will give a brief summary of IBM's current and future product support for developing and deploying web services.
| Wednesday, November 7 |
Congressman Rick Boucher (D - VA), leading architect of federal policy for the Internet, discusses the impact of web services and peer services on the Internet legislative scene.
Larry Lessig describes the changes in law and technology that threaten the innovation commons created by the Internet.