There are always people that chafe at having to conform in some environments, but history shows that over time what causes a particular technology to explode is standardization. This is true whether it came along out of single open source projects like Perl, or Web-type things. Perl is one where the standardization is de facto by a small set of big gurus, as opposed to the Web where it was more of a consortium-based, W
The last year was interesting, picking OGSI as an example: I had started writing the first Grid service spec a year and a half ago as a completely internal skunkworks kind of thing. I shared it with IBM when we chose to develop it with them. We went public with it last February. And at that time there was great excitement, but there were also a lot of people really blasting us saying, "This is a fait accompli." These guys have done everything, they're just saying "This is it. Accept it or go away." Our only response at that time was, "Watch us." The whole point was to take it to the GGF [Global Grid Forum, the standards body of the Grid], have a good defensible position that made sense so that we could take it as a starting point, and then have an open process to A) vet it, to see if people liked it and thought that the direction made sense, and B) take it and make it their own and refine it and push it forward.
And that's really what's happened in GGF and the OGSI working group within the last ten months. It's gone from this spec that a few of us in Globus and IBM wrote, to this thing where there's extremely active participation from half a dozen different vendors and projects. There is a core team of probably 10 people in the working group that are from all over the place -- including Avaki and Fujitsu Labs, Sun, Globus, and IBM. So I think that process demonstrated that one can be a leader in a community and still have it be an open community. That's what's going to have to keep happening
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