BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask to OASIS

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The BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specs are headed to OASIS, resulting in a new BPEL4People Technical Committee (TC) - expect to see an announcement and call for participation soon.  The TC will focus on defining human interactions (“human tasks”) as part of a WS-BPEL process, enabling these definitions to be exposed as web services.

Note that BPEL4People is not a new version of WS-BPEL.   BPEL4People extends the WS-BPEL spec using WS-HumanTask.   You can review either of these specs in their current form here: