Microsoft: Future Web Services Plans?

An Anonymous Coward writes: "According to News.com, Bill Gates announced a new software development architecture with a pretty low key name - the Global XML Web Services Architecture. According to the story Microsoft previewed four new specifications that it claims it will submit to standards bodies after a review period. The specs go by the names WS-Routing, WS-Referral, WS-Security, and WS-License. If Microsoft really discloses the way future Microsoft web services will work it should be possible for open source solutions to use them. Kind of makes you wonder where the catch is?"