One of the things that Microsoft is now doing really, really well is getting the community of developers involved. Part of that is blogs, part is gotdotnet, part is just Scoble... and a small but really cool part is the PDC ask the experts.

I had the great fortune to have Jeffrey Schlimmer sit down next to me with a churrito in hand and chat with Dave Bettin and myself about web services, Indigo, WSE and wsdl. It's great to know that a person like that is working on ws-policy and wsdl. Great chat, and perhaps we convinced him to blog a bit more...

He did mention that the new spec for WSDL is no longer known as WSDL 1.2, (although it was published as such), but is now "the spec formerly k.." no, I mean it's now known as WSDL 2.0. As he said "we didn't just turn some knobs like the new soap spec, we added new knobs and removed old ones..." It needed a new major version

He also mentioned the work with IBM and other (unnamed) companies, and I'm very happy to see that they are working for complete interop. To Jeffrey, Thanks!