Enterprise IT managers often deal with intriguing implementations of Web services outside the firewall as they design SOAs to reach wide audiences and scores of partners to extend their business.At InfoWorld’s Executive Forum Thursday, leaders at several large-scale, transaction-oriented businesses endorsed an SOA model that can handle application upgrades to accommodate changing business processes.However, they said some Web services standards development can be too slow to keep up with real world needs and often addresses the wrong subjects. “Standards are great if taken in moderation,” said Jeffrey McManus, Director of the Yahoo Developer Network, speaking on a panel on extending business with SOA. “I would like to call a time out for a year and let the developers and tool vendors catch up.”Some problems tackled by Web service standards have proved to be unimportant, while other, more important needs are ignored, he said. “Make SOAP work with every platform. You can’t do that today,” McManus said after the panel discussion. Adam Trachtenberg, eBay’s Manager of Technical Evangelism, said real world Web services activity often involves much more than current standards.He said strict adherence to current Web services standards might result in excluding partners from eBay’s Websites.In some ways, the emphasis placed on Web services standards “is like putting the cart before the horse,” he said. Technology Industry