Jim shows that some people do not think webservices standards are complex enough in itself:

Toby provided a tonic: How do you know when you’re solving the wrong problem? When your solution involves a 133 page standard with a section entitled “Human Task Behavior and State Transitions”, just to allow a system to give tasks to people.

This post was originally posted as https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2007/11/when-standards-fail.html.