An afternoon chat with W3C TAG member Dave Orchard talking with Dave Olson about the World-Wide Web consortium (W3C), gaining consensus among companies, and the shift from information to energy and intelligence economy.

More Dave Orchard at: http://www.pacificspirit.com

Dave Orchard resume miscellaneous excerpts:

I am interested in leading the development of social networking and/or publish and subscribe features and standards. I'm keen to perform primarily architecture and development roles. The technologies around social graph portability, data portability, single sign-on, distributed authorization, metadata description and discovery, publish and subscribe, versioning, and distributed naming/identification are just some of the technical areas that I find fascinating.

I continue to serve on the W3C TAG where I am working on Versioning, PasswordsInTheClear, URNsRegistries(aka XRIs) and tagSoup findings and outreach. I continue to monitor the HTML 5 and Web applications format Working Group.

W3C WS-Policy with success in rapid delivery of the standard, editor W3C Web Services Description Language 2.0 with success in delivering HTTP Binding, editor SOAP 1.2, member of XML Schema WG and editor XML Schema 1.1 Guide to Versioning using new XSD 1.1 features with success in adding key versioning features to Schema 1.1.

Architected IBM's Travel Frame asset, using Java, XML, XSLT, HTTP, SOAP, etc. to provide travel specific and infrastructure framework and tools for travel ISVs and services organizations. A key development is "Generation X", a toolkit that: generates bindings between Java,XML and SQL type systems; provides a SOAP router and dispatcher; and defines a service API allowing for SOAP messages to be handled by Java or XSLT programs.

I have written articles on a variety of topics, such as Versioning, XML, EJBs, Java Beans roadmap, Java success factors, Java transaction services, Java performance improvements, component and distributed object comparisons. I have been a contributing author to a Java Beans book. Writing history is available at http://www.pacificspirit.com/Authoring/

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Bagpipers recorded by Dave Olson