Chair: Bruce Ambler - Lucent Technology
This panel will present their views and discuss the role that standards will play in the achievement of the ability to assemble domain solutions from available components. Emphasis will be placed on the effect of standards on fostering a dynamic market place for commercial components provided by a variety of independent software vendors. It is anticipated that the discussion will include issues such as, Open vs. Defacto, Meta language (is XML enough), Middleware, and domain content standards