"The requirement for interoperability with our Five Eyes (FVEY) partners is central to the JUSTAS concept of operations," the document reads, referring to the five-member intelligence-sharing partnership of Canada, America, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
The services have stated that this does not allow for interoperability with other agencies, which is a drawback in case of major incidents.
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) web service is also available for data mapping for interoperability with other tools.
Fourth, OpenSesame aims for interoperability with existing software.
To a certain extent, some of the aforementioned biocuration systems render support for interoperability with external tools.
In the future, Web services will use standard Internet protocols including SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI for interoperability with other resources.
In retrospect, the tools built as the result of the workshop, although impressive, would have been more valuable to CTD had they been built with interoperability in mind.
From a technical standpoint, it is possible to leverage and build upon existing mechanisms for interoperability to achieve a more decentralised internet of things.
For example, Radvision builds "gateways" that allow for interoperability between IP-based networks, ISDN networks and 3G networks.
Personally hoping for jabber interoperability with facebook chat.
We're looking for interoperability not just with shared standards, but also with shared code, and so the community has also built open source implementations.
