>In order to enable interoperability, the community decided to "profile" >these specs -- to resolve these inaccuracies, inconsistencies, errors, and >ambiguities. That's what the WS-I Basic Profile is.
By the way, the Basic Profile is a very readable document. http://www.ws-i.org/Profiles/Basic/2003-08/BasicProfile-1.0a.html If you focus on the normative rules (Rnnnn) and then read the motivations behind them it's pretty straightforward.
