Scripting News: “The people who do the standards work at the BigCo’s can be great engineers, some of them are very smart and experienced people, but as you can see in specs like UDDI and WSDL, they also have to work with low-road idiots who carve out political power in their companies by polluting simple ideas with incomprehensible compromises. No one fights for simplicity, and if they do they are ground into submission by the compromisers. You don’t need a degree in rocket science to figure out what’s going to fly. If you can’t make sense of the spec in 10 minutes no one is going to use it so you can safely ignore it.”