Tim Bray writes about the ongoing debate about WS-ReliableMessaging vs. WS-Reliability, specifically Chris Ferris’s comparison, a protest by Hitachi’s Bob Freund (where I’m not sure how much tongue-in-cheek it’s intended to be), and the WSRM TC’s response. I don’t really care that much about the differences, but I think it’s great that at least there is some debate going on — maybe we’ll end up with a single open, broadly-supported standard in the end …