Biographical Sketch: Chris Ferris is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO of Industry Standards in the Software Group Standards Strategy organization. He has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering of distributed systems for most of his 30+ year career in IT and has been actively engaged in open standards development for XML and Web services since 1999. Chris is former chair of the WS-I Basic Profile Working Group, the group responsible for the development of the WS-I Basic Profile and currently represents IBM on the WS-I Board of Directors. He is former co-chair of the W3C Web Services Policy WG and former chair of the W3C XML Protocols WG and the W3C Web Services Architecture Working Group. He represents IBM on the OASIS WS-RX TC and is a former elected member of the OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB). Additionally, he is an author and editor of the WS-Reliable Messaging specification and the IBM RAMP profile.