David Orchard is the W3C lead for BEA, focusing on web services standards. He is a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group, Web Services Architecture, XML Protocol, XML Core, and Advisory committees. He is currently or has been a co-editor of the XML Link and XInclude specifications, and the SAML domain model and core assertions document. He participates actively in web services related Java standards. He has written numerous technical articles and is a frequent speaker on various internet related technologies.