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5.4. Future Directions

WS-Addressing is a base specification on which many of the most fundamental Web services protocols, described later in this book, must rely. For that reason, the stability of the specification is of paramount importance. No extensions or major modifications are expected. WS-Addressing has been submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium and will undergo a fast-track standardization process with the goal of producing a standard that is closely aligned with the current specification by the end of 2005.